Robert Brantley had no idea what he was getting into when he turned his Honda hatchback around to see if he saw what he thought he saw along a northeast Louisiana country road.
Brantley chronicled the discovery on his Instagram page. A small white and gray kitten came prancing eagerly out of the overgrown grass on the side of the road. And Brantley quickly learned his new friend had quite a few friends of his own: 12 kittens emerged onto the road!
"Oh, no, there's a whole — oh, my gosh! I can't take y'all. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh, there's more! We got a kitten problem," Brantley says in the first of what has become a series of kitten videos. "Who would do this? I thought I was saving one. Hot diggity dog."
Brantley ended up taking the whole litter back home with him, and from there, the best side of social media has emerged. He told NPR he's found homes for all but two of the kittens, who need a little extra-special care at the moment. However, for the time being, they're all still together living in his backyard.
"We found some good people locally that want 'em, and I know that they're all good people and they're not doing anything bad with them," he said. "We haven't gave any of them away yet — they're probably a little too young."
So hopefully, until they get relocated to their new forever homes, the kitten videos will keep coming. And Brantley said, as terrible as it is that someone apparently dumped these kitties on the side of the road, he's gotten to see some of the best in people as a result of taking them in.
"That's kind of my thing is just I want people to know that no matter where you're at and how much bad you see in the world, there's still a lot of people — not talking about me — doing good things and not doing it for recognition," he said.
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