Kitten found abandoned on train - and nobody knows where he came from
A kitten has been taken to a Black Country vets after it was found abandoned on a train.
The tiny feline was spotted by staff on a CrossCountry service at Birmingham New Street station on Tuesday night.
Concerned station staff cared for the kitten throughout the night – before taking it to a vets on Wednesday morning to be checked over.
Experts at St George's veterinary clinic in Wolverhampton confirmed the cat is male and around five weeks old.
Although extremely frightened by its rail journey and brush with danger the kitten is in good health.
Jess McLoughlin-Carroll, shift station manager at Birmingham New Street, said: “We have no idea how this kitten came to be on the train, but because of its size we think it is very unlikely it made it aboard on its own.
“An animal so small wouldn’t have survived long alone, especially in the dangerous environment of the railway.
"He's very young to have used up one of his nine lives already, but fortunately we got to him in time and he is now receiving the care he needs until we can find him his fur-ever home.”
This cat’s caper has attracted a lot of attention on the Birmingham New Street twitter account, with numerous offers to adopt him.
It’s not the first time cats have caused a stir at Network Rail stations – in March this year a tabby at London Euston decided to sit on top of an Avanti West Coast train refusing to budge for hours.
And a missing cat called Storm who vanished on Christmas Day in Erdington in Birmingham was reunited with its owner after turning up at Birmingham New Street nearly a month later.
The Cats Protection charity will be contacted so this latest lost kitten can be rehomed.
