Sister Hazel rescue six kittens trapped in tour bus following 800-mile drive
The traditional stereotype of the rock-and-roll life-style is one in every of hazard, with children abandoning their dad and mom’ dwelling too younger, seduced by the music and life on the street. Whereas that trope has kind of fallen to the wayside, it nonetheless lives on in a gaggle of very punk-rock kittens, who stowed away on Sister Hazel’s tour bus final week for an 800-mile trek throughout the South.
The felines began their journey in Nashville, hidden within the battery compartment of the Gainesville alt-rockers’ tour bus. For 2 days, the new child cats have been trapped within the entrance hood of the car, tagging alongside for the band’s 15-hour journey again to their dwelling state of Florida. Sister Hazel in the end found their sudden and lovable cargo in Ocala, Florida, the place they have been delighted to seek out that the weird sounds they’d been listening to weren’t a defective air compressor, however as a substitute six very younger and really cute kittens.
Lead singer and guitarist Ken Block detailed their shock rescue mission:
“Certainly one of our crew guys got here into the venue final Friday afternoon and instructed Kurt Pfister, our manufacturing supervisor, he heard a bizarre noise coming from someplace within the bus that seemed like cats. Kurt instructed him we have now been having issues with the air compressor and that’s most likely what it was. He went out, heard one thing, shut the whole lot down on the bus, and shockingly heard meowing. The cries have been tracked right down to the entrance battery compartment of the bus the place it was opened to seek out SIX kittens.
Kurt then known as the bus proprietor to get some recommendation concerning the best solution to get to 3 of them that we couldn’t attain. The proprietor then instructed him that the mom cat lives in an outdated deserted bus on the tour bus firm’s car parking zone in Nashville, TN, and he or she had six kittens a few weeks in the past. So she will need to have moved them into our bus. Fortunately, one of the staff of the venue in Ocala, FL runs an animal rescue, so she took them to get fed and checked out!! They appeared okay, however I can’t think about how loud and windy it was when the bus was on the street!”
All six cats can be found for adoption at Melissa Bell’s Rescue. Fortunately, the group famous that they’re in nice well being after their harrowing street journey, including:
“They’re actually treasured and like to eat. We’re at present bottle feeding them and certain for an additional week or so till they’ll begin to drink from a shallow plate. Then we transfer to moist meals round seven weeks, then to kibble after that. They’ve had their first dose of Strongid, which is a wormer, and so they all had baths two nights in the past. They don’t want their heating pad anymore since they’ll now higher regulate their physique temperature. They’re doing rather well, and the one black one together with the fluffy brown/tan one are the 2 loudest!”
The rescue can also be accepting financial contributions, plus meals, litter, and components donations, which could be given right here.
