A Live Kitten
An anonymous Redditor shared how their dad found all kinds of stuff while driving a recycling truck. But there was one item that gave him “paws” for concern.
“My dad drove a recycling truck. He found a lot of stuff on his runs. I haven’t asked him what the craziest thing was but one thing he told me a long time ago sticks out in my mind.
At one stop, he heard something in a garbage bag. He saw the bag moving. So he ripped it open and found a kitten. He took the kitten with him. He put it in his lunch box (left it open, obviously). I don’t know how young the poor thing was. This was so long ago though, that’s the only part of the story that I remember. I don’t know if he brought it to the shelter or a vet or a friend. Not sure how it turned out.
It wasn’t the first time he rescued an animal on the job. It’s sort of related to my story above but not to the main question. When my dad was a cab driver, a man got in with a bag and told him to drive to the canal. Somewhere along the way, my dad realized there were cats in the bag (meowing, I guess). He stopped the car and told the guy to leave the bag and get out. The guy was going to drop the cats in the canal. My dad ended up bringing the cats home. He found homes for all of them.”