“I thought, ‘Surely there’s nothing inside that bag’. Then I got a stick and moved the bag. The entire bag started to move.”
Then, the cries got louder.
The two kittens were only days old. Photo / Hills Cat Rescue
Jade carefully opened up the bag and saw what appeared to be “a small animal inside”, she said, but she wasn’t sure what it was at first.
After looking closely, Jade said she found two tiny newborn kittens.
“They were still wet and they were freezing cold,” she said. “Their eyes weren’t open yet. I knew that they were very, very young.”
She googled what to do and put them in a cardboard box.
“It said that they can’t regulate their own temperature, so the first thing you have to do is make sure they’re warm. I heated up a water bottle and wrapped it in some blankets and put them in a laundry basket.”
One kitten has since died. Photo / Hills Cat Rescue
She got some milk from the shop and began to feed them with a syringe.
“When I came into the laundry in the morning and I heard them crying, it was such a sense of relief that they were still alive. Now I had to figure out what to do with them.”
She reached out to multiple animal help organisations but couldn’t find anyone to help until she got to Hills Cat Rescue, which took the kittens in.
Hills Cat Rescue’s Cindy Easterbrook told 9News the kittens were only days old. She said if anyone finds themselves in a similar situation, the newborns need to get heat, food and fluids.
One of the two kittens found in a plastic bag by a woman out walking in Sydney. Photo / Hills Cat Rescue
Jade said even though the experience must have been horrible for the kittens she was “glad they had each other,” calling them “fighters”.
Despite the help Jade and Hills Cat Rescue gave the kittens, one of the rescued animals has since died.
“Sadly, that can happen when animals have been dumped,” a Hills Cat Rescue volunteer told the Herald.