MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA – The seven tiny kittens you see in this photo, and seven others like them, have been saved by the fur on their noses by a kind cat kid.

Lucinda, who is just 13, was riding home along the Moonee Ponds Creek Track last week when several kittens just so happened to cross her path, literally

“They were so cute. I didn’t want to leave them, they looked so forlorn and lost,” she said. “It was raining so I ran home to get a laundry basket to collect them.”