Fishermen rescued kittens from river

Jason Frost, who lives in Hueytown, Jefferson County, Alabama, and his friend Brandon Key were out on the Warrior River near Bluff Creek on Saturday morning when they heard a splash and saw something swimming across the water toward them. They weren't sure exactly what it was until they heard the meows.



A kitten, an orange tabby that looked to be about a few months old, swam right up to their boat and Frost picked it up by the nape of the neck and set it aboard. The kitten had a little shake then started meowing. "Never in my life have I seen anything like that," Frost says in the video. They then see another kitten jump into the river and start swimming towards them, so they moved the boat closer and Frost quickly snatched it up into the boat.





The two kittens are identical. "Well there's a first time for everything, isn't there?" Frost says. The kittens were friendly and perfectly fine being on the boat, Frost said. "People were looking at us out on the water like, 'Oh my God, these people got cats with them,'" Frost said. When they got to shore, they saw a family with two little girls who each wanted a kitten, and they gave them to the family.


YouTube link. Original Facebook video.

Frost said he isn't sure where the kittens came from, but he doesn't think they just got loose. There aren't any homes near where they were fishing, he said. He thinks someone might have just dumped them there. Frost said it's the strangest experience he's had while fishing on the Warrior River. "Everybody always has a crazy fishing story, and that's all it is, is a story," he said. "If I wouldn't have had this on video, everybody would have thought I was crazy."