Acouple who saved a kitten they found in a gutter didn’t know what they were going to do with him—until he met their other cat. Video is below!
Lauren Moldenhauer, 21, took to her TikTok account @laurenmoldy on June 25, where she showed the rescue of the fluffy lost kitten. In just two days, the video racked up 15 million views.
“My husband and I were on a run together and around mile 6, I stopped because I noticed a kitten on the side of the road sitting in the gutter,” she told Newsweek. “At first I thought he was dead, but then I saw his little tummy breathing super fast.”
The Utah couple acted fast, scooping up the kitten and rushing him to safety, not caring that it left them “filthy.”
“He was extremely overheated and breathing super fast, so we took him home and got him some milk and wet food,” Moldenhauer said.
In the viral video, Moldenhauer and her husband Drew, 23, cuddle the tiny kitten while covered in dirt, after doing everything they can to retrieve him from the gutter, writing: “You find a cat in the gutter on the side of the road but you already have a cat.”
Introducing a kitten to an older cat doesn’t always go smoothly, and pet owners are urged to take things slowly and cautiously when adding a kitten to the family.
Author and Cat Behavior Associates expert Pam Johnson-Bennett, previously told Newsweek there should be a gradual introduction, one sense at a time: “Scent, hearing, visual and then touch.”
@laurenbensonn I think we might have to keep him
