Lonesome Kitten Comes Running to a Litter of Four and Decides He’ll Be Their New Brother

A lonesome kitten came running to a litter of four and decided he would be their new brother.

A neonatal kitten was brought into the Animal Welfare League of Arlington (AWLA) at the wee age of two days old. He was rescued as a singleton and in need of round-the-clock bottle feedings.

For the first 2.5 weeks of his life, the kitten named Colin Robinson was hand-reared by a dedicated volunteer and given undivided attention. As soon as his eyes opened and ears perked up, his need for a playmate multiplied.

“He would cry constantly and was very lonely, so he needed some friends,” Penny Richards, a foster volunteer at AWLA, told Love Meow.

Around the time Colin was rescued, a litter of four kittens (Nadja, Nandor, Laszlo, and Guillermo) arrived at AWLA needing foster care. They hailed from a pallet delivery from the Richmond area to Arlington, Virginia, and were found on one of the pallets that had been stored in a warehouse.

Penny took them in an