OKLAHOMA – A group of fourth graders out of Boswell, Oklahoma, are being fully credited with saving a kitten from drowning, just seconds away from its certain death. Their harrowing story is now serving as an example for the whole community, CBS affiliate KXII reports.
The kids were playing outside right after school when they heard loud meowing. However, when they went over to see what was going on, they were shocked by what they saw and knew they needed to help.
“They found a kitten in a bucket,” Tiffany Rubio stated.
“I was scared,” one of the kids admitted.
That loud meow turned out to be a kitten fighting for her life as an elderly woman is about to drown it.
“I thought she was gonna hurt the cat,” the kid stated.
A woman drowning kittens, stopped by a group of 4th graders. Their story now serves as an example to the community. https://t.co/CS3qQrTeWA
— KXII News 12 (@KXIITV) November 4, 2016
A woman drowning kittens, stopped by a group of 4th graders. Their story now serves as an example to the community. https://t.co/CS3qQrTeWA
— KXII News 12 (@KXIITV) November 4, 2016
That’s just when this group of kids, who live with foster parents, stepped up to make sure the kitten would find a home.
“They were pretty distressed, they didn’t want anything bad to happen to it,” Rubio, who is a teacher at their school, Boswell Elementary School, explained.
Though no one knows just how many were killed, the kids begged for the one kitten they saw and brought it to Rubio.
“Whenever they told me what had gone down, I was like I can’t believe someone would do this to an animal. The kitten was covered in fleas and starving.”
Rubio, who also sits on the city council, stated that the stray cat problem is so extreme, they didn’t bother to file a police report. The elderly woman is not facing charges.
However. their story does not end here.
Rubio contacted Linda Arnold, who fosters kittens out in Sherman, and now Arnold is taking care of the kitten at her home until she is healthy enough to be adopted.
“We decided that we would use it as an educational tool to work with the other children in the class and let them see what a difference these kids made by doing the right thing,” Arnold stated.
The right thing that saved a life, and now Arnold is sending pictures and videos two to three times a week for Rubio to show to her class.
“It’s teaching them that this kind of behavior to an animal is unacceptable,” Rubio concluded.
