Four kittens saved from being crushed by a two-tonne woodpile have been adopted by workers at the waste disposal site they were found at.<\/p>\n
Three-week-old Oreo, Biscuit, Mittens and Bob were unknowingly transported five miles in a skip to Tancred waste transfer station near York by Yorwaste driver Nik Smith.<\/p>\n
Describing them as “the luckiest cats to be around”, Mr Smith said they were heard crying five minutes before the pile was removed by industrial shovels, and moved to safety.<\/p>\n
The kittens have now been rehomed with Mr Smith and his colleagues Andrew Pattinson and Alan Dyer, and are “absolute characters”, according to them.<\/p>\n
Mr Pattinson and Mr Dyer were convinced to adopt the kittens when Mr Smith shared a picture detailing their rescue and appealing for people to take them in.<\/p>\n
“I was worried because I’d bought an English bull terrier puppy, and I was like, ‘will they be all right?’,” Mr Pattinson, who took Mittens, said.<\/p>\n
“But obviously he’s the boss now.”<\/p>\n
Mr Dyer, who already has two cats, said he and his wife were looking for a third but ended up taking both Oreo and Biscuit.<\/p>\n
“I thought, ‘oh, they’re really cute kittens, really young, really small’,” he said.<\/p>\n