This Man Used His Warm Coffee To Rescue 3 Kittens That Were Frozen To The Ground For Hours
Who would have thought that coffee could be used to save lives? Well, all right, there’s a heap of studies on the benefits of coffee and how it can prevent certain illnesses, so a lot of people probably thought that.
I am, however, not referring to saving lives by means of ingesting coffee, but rather by pouring it. That’s right. Pouring it. You know, like pouring coffee on someone’s tongue when it freezes to a flag pole because someone else told them that people over 30 can’t have their tongues frozen to a pole (If you got this reference, post it in the comments).
Canadian Kendall Diwisch stumbled upon 3 kittens frozen to the ground during his work
Image credits: Kendall Diwisch
Kendall Diwisch, a Canadian oil worker from Drayton Valley, Alberta, Canada, was doing a well checkup run when he stumbled upon 3 abandoned kittens on one of the back roads.
Diwisch stopped to investigate and was greeted by the sound of desperate meowing. He soon discovered that two of the three tiny kittens had their tails frozen to the ground.
Apparently, two of the three kittens’ tails were frozen to the snow and they couldn’t move anywhere
Image credits: Kendall Diwisch
Without hesitation, he ran to melt the ice by pouring warm coffee on their frozen tails
Image credits: Kendall Diwisch
The man did not hesitate and leaped back to the car to pick up the only ice-melting thing he had—warm coffee. After getting back to the abandoned animals, he started pouring whatever remaining coffee he had on the tails. To the man’s surprise, the adorable kittens instinctively started drinking it, but not enough to have any negative effects.
Unfortunately, there wasn’t enough coffee (or it wasn’t warm enough) for it to do the trick. So, Diwisch decided to give it a little pull. Despite the cute kittens meowing in discomfort, he managed to fairly easily set them free from their icy prison. No kittens were scalded or harmed during the animal rescue operation.
Diwisch later posted on Facebook about this little adventure, which went viral
Image credits: Kendall Diwisch
The hero took the three little critters home to be fed and warmed up
Image credits: Cause for Critters
Diwisch brought the 3 furry felines back to the car and drove them home, where they were warmed up and fed. The tiny stray cats were also dewormed as Diwisch was planning to give them up for adoption.
The hero later took to Facebook to share highlights from his adventure with the kittens. He suspected that the kittens were frozen for the whole night, so they were lucky he happened to pop by at the right place and at the right time before they froze to death.
Here’s the video showing how it all went down
It wasn’t long until the three little furballs found a new warm home
Image credits: Cause for Critters
Diwisch’s story soon went viral with a number of news outlets covering the story and many social media websites reposting it.
It wasn’t long until all three kittens found a new home. According to Diwisch, he received tons of offers to adopt the kittens. Cause for Critters, a local animal shelter in Drayton Valley, later announced in a post that the kittens were taken in by a family also living in Drayton Valley.
A happy ending to a feel-good story. Have any rescue stories of your own? Let us know in the comments below!
One half of the internet praised the hero for his selfless act…
… while the rest started coming up with cute names for them
Good work, sir. You saved three lives today. I always knew coffee was an important beverage.
This made me so angry. Someone did this on purpose somehow. No cat is going to willingly sit in wet snow until it refreezes. I'm just glad Coco, Java, and Mocha are all o.k. now.
Not necessarily true. I've seen cats with their own heated "doghouses" freeze so bad the tips of the ears and tails freeze right off. I've also seen a giant open wound on the face that had frozen even though the heated outdoor house and a giant heated human house were right there.
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So heart warmingly touching. Good on you sir. May that karma rain down upon you.
You, sir, earn a brownie point!
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this is both so heartwarming and heartbreaking. I love him for caring about helpless kittens. I hate a world where kittens could be so helpless at all. )-:
I kind of wonder why it was this guy had a rolling camera on him and to what degree this was staged for the camera. At worst he could have set the whole thing up entirely but the cruelty of that seems unlikely. Still, given how quick and straightforward the camera narrative is, I would expect that at the very least he found the kitties first and paused his rescue effort to turn on the camera. There a considerable ethical grey zone here. Anyone find any facts on this or have any insight about how the camera played into this.
You are a complete and utter idiot, please stay of the internet.
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one small thing... did he notice the kittens were frozen, walk away, come back with his phone just to film the thing while they waited in the cold?
I tend to wonder the same thing about stories like this... how much longer do the animals suffer while the savior makes sure his heroics are well documented. I do love that they are well and loved.
Load More Replies... Good work, sir. You saved three lives today. I always knew coffee was an important beverage.
This made me so angry. Someone did this on purpose somehow. No cat is going to willingly sit in wet snow until it refreezes. I'm just glad Coco, Java, and Mocha are all o.k. now.
Not necessarily true. I've seen cats with their own heated "doghouses" freeze so bad the tips of the ears and tails freeze right off. I've also seen a giant open wound on the face that had frozen even though the heated outdoor house and a giant heated human house were right there.
Load More Replies... So heart warmingly touching. Good on you sir. May that karma rain down upon you.
You, sir, earn a brownie point!
Load More Replies... this is both so heartwarming and heartbreaking. I love him for caring about helpless kittens. I hate a world where kittens could be so helpless at all. )-:
I kind of wonder why it was this guy had a rolling camera on him and to what degree this was staged for the camera. At worst he could have set the whole thing up entirely but the cruelty of that seems unlikely. Still, given how quick and straightforward the camera narrative is, I would expect that at the very least he found the kitties first and paused his rescue effort to turn on the camera. There a considerable ethical grey zone here. Anyone find any facts on this or have any insight about how the camera played into this.
You are a complete and utter idiot, please stay of the internet.
Load More Replies... one small thing... did he notice the kittens were frozen, walk away, come back with his phone just to film the thing while they waited in the cold?
I tend to wonder the same thing about stories like this... how much longer do the animals suffer while the savior makes sure his heroics are well documented. I do love that they are well and loved.
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