Five kittens left for dead in Covington are finding their forever homes.
A Covington man found a taped-up box of kittens on train tracks in December. A post about the kittens on Facebook found its way to volunteers with Stray Haven , a network of volunteer fosters in Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky and Indiana.
One volunteer took in the kittens, but realized something was wrong.
Four of the five kittens have cerebellar hypoplasia, or wobbly cat syndrome, a neurological disorder that causes balance and coordination issues in cats. The disorder usually occurs when the mother contracts feline parvovirus during pregnancy, altering the formation of the kittens’ cerebellum.
Shelly Conner, the volunteer cat coordinator for Stray Haven, took in the kittens at her Florence home Dec. 6.
“It’s kind of rare to have that many in a litter. And at that point they seemed to be on the really extreme end of CH (cerebellar hypoplasia),” she told The Enquirer.
The kittens were around six weeks old, but very small. Conner fed them water through a syringe and set up a makeshift home for them in her bathroom. She reached out to Just Cats Rescue in Akron, Ohio, which could give them the support they needed.