Curious Doncaster kittens back home after 'escaping' in gardening van
Poppy and Daisy got into a gardener's van - and ended up going for a ride
Two curious kitten have returned home in Doncaster, after hopping into a gardening van and going on an adventure.
Poppy and Daisy, who belong to Doncaster minister Reverend Carol Lee, inadvertently hitched a ride on a Green Thumb van.
Carol said: “I remembered that we’d had the Green Thumb lawn man around during the day to do some gardening, and we wondered if the kittens had climbed in and been driven away. They do have a tendency to try and climb into our cars, so it wasn’t impossible.
“Simon contacted the company first thing the next morning to enquire and found out the driver had spotted a kitten under his van at one of his stops, and he’d shooed it away for fear of it getting run over.”
The gardening firm ended up contacting all customers on the round asking them to keep an eye out, with posters being made and social media messages posted in an effort to track the pair down.
Carol continued: “From the Facebook post I received a message that two kittens had been seen in the messenger’s mother’s garden. They had managed to take a photo of one of them and sure enough it was Poppy. They would message again if they returned.
“Later that evening, around 11pm, we received a phone call from the customer after us on the Green Thumb round, a kitten was at her door meowing to come in. As we were leaving to collect her, I received another message that one of the kittens had now returned to her mother’s garden.
“We rushed around to both addresses with a fabric carrier. Both houses were very close, with the gardens almost backing on to one another, and we were able to find them both and bring them home on the same evening.
“It was such a relief to have them back home, they had both travelled for around half a mile and so I don’t think they would have been able to find their own way back
“Everybody was so helpful and supportive, the community really came together to help us find them.”