News: Kitten found stuffed in library book drop

July 27, 2010

By Bonnie L. Coo, Inquirer Staff Writer

A striped kitten is fighting for its life at the Montgomery County SPCA after someone left him in the book drop of a library in Cheltenham Township, officials said Monday.

The male gray tabby was placed in the book drop at the La Mott Community Center, which doubles as a library, sometime overnight Thursday after the center closed at 9 p.m.

The kitten was discovered by a maintenance man at 7:30 a.m. Friday when he reported for work - and heard mewing from the drop box.

"He investigated, and lo and behold, it was a kitty," said Kelly Rebitz, a center staffer.

The worker summoned police and community center officials who unlocked the drop box, she said. The kitten was freed at 9:30 a.m. and taken to the SPCA for emergency treatment.

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