A family has taken a kitten into their home after a teenage girl found it abandoned in a bin store.
Sixteen-year-old Julia was taking rubbish out of her family home not far from Millwall stadium the Den when she saw a backpack lying with the binbags.
She thought this was unusual and on looking closer saw that there was something moving inside. Julia opened the bag and saw that there was a tiny kitten inside.
“I took the kitten and came home crying,” her cousin Maja, 20, told the News. Now the family have adopted the eight-week-old kitten, which they have called Pumba, after the warthog in the Lion King. The family have another cat called Timon, Pumba’s meerkat best friend in the film.
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Although they are happy to have gained a pet, the family are still sad about Pumba being dumped. “It makes me so angry?,” Julia said. “I really don’t understand, it’s so sad. I find it really disrespectful because it’s a living animal.”
People sometimes abandon kittens because they feel they don’t have time or money to look after them after their cat unexpectedly gets pregnant. If you are in this situation you can go to cats.org for help rehoming, or to a local shelter like Celia Hammond for advice, although they may not be able to take in your pet.