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Four malnourished kittens rescued from landfill site live to see another tomorrow in heroic save by cat welfare workers: '[They] love nothing more than playing together and making mischief'

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    Four kittens were saved after they were found malnourished and riddled with fleas and worms at a landfill site.
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    Workers from a cat welfare charity used kippers to tempt the kittens to safety after staff at Westcombe
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    Waste in Somerton, Somerset, found two other dead kittens.
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    The three males and one female kitten, aged about five weeks old, were
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    discovered under an 8m (26ft) high pile of wood.
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    Rebecca Dawson, from Cats Protection, said after two weeks of specialist food, all
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    four have recovered and "love nothing more than playing together and making mischief".
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    Vets said the four kittens, named Jack, Jill, Skip and Marley, weighed less than
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    half of what healthy kittens their age should when they were first found.
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    Ms Dawson, Yeovil branch co-ordinator for the charity, said she "really was not sure Jack would make it".
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    "He'd been so brave," she said, adding that he had acted like a mother to his
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    siblings - and is now a lively, healthy kitten.
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    Ms Dawson set-up two security cameras and humane traps to allow her to track and catch other cats at the site.
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    Two pregnant cats and another with a missing paw were found and taken to a vet.
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    In total, 20 cats were found hiding under the waste by the charity.

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