Bomb squad called to defuse bag of kittens left outside church

Authorities in Ohio were met with a pleasant surprise when a “suspicious package” they had been called to investigate outside a church turned out to be a bag of kittens.

Butler County Sheriff’s Office said their bomb unit had been called to inspect a bag at a church in New Miami on Thursday. Instead of explosives, they discovered it contained a cat and six one-day-old kittens.

“When Specialist Mike Grimes and Det Detherage arrived, they didn’t hear ticking they heard purring,” the department said in the post on Facebook.

A note left on a paper napkin said that the mother cat, named Sprinkles, went into labour on 17 Feburary at 2pm

The police department assured the public the “momma and babies are warm, cozy and fed” and had been transferred to an animal shelter.