Mum had obviously snuck in when it wasn’t full in the hope of giving birth somewhere she thought was safe, warm and dry. Joanne said: "Only one kitten was heard or seen inside the container so we’re fairly sure there weren't anymore. Two-week-old kitten rescued after mum gives birth in recycling container (Image: RSPCA) Attempts are now being made to find the kitten's mum and get her health checked and neutered. When RSPCA inspector Joanne Macdonald and trainee animal rescue officer Scarlett Sanderson arrived, there was no sign of the adult cat, who would have had sufficient space by then to get out of the container herself. They could so easily have been crushed by falling cardboard or succumbed to the heat." Mum had obviously not eaten for at least a couple of days and all the while she was trying to feed and care for her newborn kitten. "It was incredibly hot and there would have been limited air. There was tons of cardboard packed tightly up to the ceiling of the container and no room for them to move. I don’t know how the cats managed to survive. Vicki said: "It was the most extraordinary rescue I have taken part in, in 21 years with the RSPCA. READ MORE: Connor Chapman blamed Elle Edwards murder on 'friend' and said he was at home watching YouTube Vicki, along with staff from Makro, spent five hours painstakingly removing pieces of cardboard by hand in an attempt to reach the cats. RSPCA inspector Vicki Brooks said she believes the mother and son may have been stuck inside the unit in sweltering heat without food or water for several days. The RSPCA was called on May 30 and both the cat and her kitten were taken into the care of RSPCA’s Wirral and Chester branch. It's thought the cat had gone inside to give birth to her baby and then become trapped as it got continually filled with more and more cardboard. When they went to check out where the noise was coming from, they found a cat and a kitten. Staff at the wholesaler, on the Britonwood Trading Estate, in Kirkby, heard noises coming from a container filled with cardboard. Workers at Makro needed to call the RSPCA after finding something "extraordinary" in the recycling.
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