While driving down a rural road in Pioneer, LA, Robert Brantley encountered an unexpected surprise. It all began when he noticed a small black, white, and grey kitten in the grass by the roadside.
Intrigued, Brantley stopped his truck, got out, and approached the lone kitten, recording the moment on his phone.
“The wife has been wanting a cat for the farm; figured I’d stop and rescue the thing,” Brantley shared on social media alongside the video.
As he reached for the kitten, more began to appear. First one, then another, until soon, a half-dozen kittens were swarming around his feet, meowing for attention.
“Oh my gosh, there’s more!” Brantley exclaimed in the video. “I can’t take you all!”
Kittens continued to pour out from the nearby woods, creating a seemingly endless stream of tiny cats. In total, thirteen kittens appeared, far more than Brantley had anticipated.
“I thought I was saving one. Hot diggety dog!” he remarked.
Faced with the choice of leaving the kittens behind or taking them all in, Brantley decided he couldn’t abandon them. He gathered them up, although it proved to be a challenging task as the kittens kept escaping from his truck.
“Every time I would put one cat in the truck, two would jump out,” he explained. “So I had to close the door with the window down and funnel them in.”
Ultimately, Brantley and his wife took all 13 kittens home, transforming their house into a temporary kitten nursery.
Two of the kittens have already been adopted, while the others still need medical checkups before finding their new homes.
Brantley has received many adoption requests for the kittens. He plans to find homes for all of them once they are healthy, except for one special kitten—the original one he had set out to save. Brantley has named this kitten “Scout” and intends to keep it as a permanent member of his family.
The heartwarming video of the rescue has garnered over 2 million views on ViralHog’s YouTube page.
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“This is the cutest ambush I ever did see. Attack of the cuteness. Well, he just became a dad of the kitten gang. Love it,” commented one viewer.
“This guy is an angel. He did end up taking them all with him. I love how the kittens felt safe to come to him for help,” added another.