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A Strange Story

One night, my best friend and I decided to do a moonlight ride. The evening began much as it did every other night we rode. The night was beautiful with a light, warm, summer breeze and a bright full moon that light up the way. We rode along the street that lead to the trails, happy and ignorant of our not too distant, strange experience. This night, unlike any night we had ever lived, we decided to do our usual trail but in the reverse direction. Thus being decided, we rode to the second forest entrance, chattering away. As we entered the dark and gloomy forest, we saw many small moving figures surround us within seconds! Panic struck us, as I recalled hearing of chipmunks with rabies running after and biting larger animals. We quickly determined that the safest course of action was to flee immediately to save ourselves. We went back out to the street and continued on our way intending on doing a different trail but our curiosity got the better of us. We went back into the forest and used a lighter to illuminate the scene. We stared down in shock, mouths gaping wide and unable to speak for a minute as we tried to figure out if we were dreaming. All around the horses' hooves, by the millions (ok..not quite), were tiny little kittens!

As we continued into the forest, the kittens followed at our horses' heels. We figured that someone had had a few litters of kittens and didn't want to keep them so they abandoned them in the forest. We decided, both being feline lovers, that we should take them to the local organisation for dogs and cats called Miawouf. So we left the forest again and trotted off to the stable, trying to keep the kittens from following us out to the street. We got to the stable were we took my car to the forest entrance and picked up the kittens. We then went back to the stable but couldn't figure out where to put all these little bundles so we took them back to the forest, set them loose again, went to my friend's cousin's house, got cages and cardboard boxes and went back to get them.

My parents not knowing about this and being away from home, we took them to my house were we put them in my bathroom. There, I put a fresh litter box full of sand, a blanket for them to lye on, and I set out an aluminium tin full of cat food and a container of water. The kittens rushed to the food and water climbing over one another to try to get at it. I set out another tin of food and container of water, and watched with contentment as the kittens each had their fill and began to explore their environment.

As the kittens moved around, it became difficult to move ourselves, being extra careful not to step on one. It didn't take them long to settle down on the blanket and curl up to sleep. We finally had a chance to count them. 1, 2, 3, 4, ... , 10, 11, 12, ... , 15, 16, 17 little kittens! The next day, we brought them to the organisation and got lectured on the importance of neutering our cats!

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