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Two kittens were extricated from a motor home last week and another was found roaming a parking lot in Cloquet. All three are finding new homes here after likely hitching a ride from the Twin Cities area.
Three kittens are safe and sound thanks to an alert RV owner and Cloquet firefighters, police officers and an animal rescue volunteer who all came to the rescue.
On April 12, a camper owner heard baby kittens crying inside the vehicle when he returned from shopping at the Walmart store in Cloquet. Cloquet police officer Elijah Haglund responded and soon got Jodi Carlson of Missing Pets of the Northland involved. According to the Missing Pets Facebook page, Carlson tried to lure the kittens with canned food but they didn't bite. Cloquet Area Fire District firefighters Mike Garberg, Chris White and Stu Waters then got busy.
The firefighters carefully removed paneling from the back of the camper and then had to sift through the insulation to find two kittens that were estimated to be only a few weeks old.
A third kitten had been discovered and rescued by a Walmart employee an hour earlier in the parking lot. Social media aided in getting the kitten reunited with siblings the next morning. Mother cat remains a mystery, but could be a Twin Cities area resident, since that's where the camper owner had traveled from.
Carlson said the kittens are named Stu Mart, Earl Asphalt (after camper owner Earl) and Chrissy DQ, as Carlson was at Dairy Queen when Haglund called her. The kittens have already been taken in, including by one of the firefighters.
