{"id":408438,"date":"2026-09-23T17:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T17:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/408438\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T17:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T17:36:08","slug":"4-kittens-rescued-from-car-engine-in-cape-coral-now-up-for-adoption-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/408438\/","title":{"rendered":"4 kittens rescued from car engine in Cape Coral, now up for adoption | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Cape Coral firefighters responded to a call about a kitten trapped in a vehicle&#8217;s engine compartment earlier this week and discovered four kittens instead of one.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue 5 safely rescued all four kittens from their unexpected hiding spot.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters attempted to reunite them with their mother, but she could not be found.<\/p>\n<p>The kittens will be available for adoption at Lee County Domestic Animal Services for anyone interested in giving the smoke-colored kittens a home.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"- 1\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/news\/lee\/lee-county-shelter-cuts-adoption-fees-for-dogs-and-cats-in-october\/article_563b5fee-378d-4302-bc71-6d8d0c243e8e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lee County shelter cuts adoption fees for dogs and cats in October<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adoptions take place at the shelter at 5600 Banner Drive in Fort Myers. Adoption hours are 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leegov.com\/animalservices\/adopt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here<\/a> to submit an adoption application. You can also print it, fax it, bring it to the shelter, or complete it in person. Adoptions are handled on a first-come, first-served basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Cape Coral firefighters responded to a call about a kitten trapped in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,16230,28,897,21884,356],"class_list":["post-408438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-cats","tag-florida","tag-fort-myers","tag-kitten","tag-lee-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}