Woman Sees A Hawk Clutching What She Thinks Is A Squirrel – But It’s A Kitten

A routine drive turned into a life-saving rescue when Lucy Bolton spotted two red-tailed hawks standing in the middle of the road in Alabama. At first, she assumed one of the birds was carrying a squirrel, but as she drove closer, she realized the hawk had an entirely different animal clutched tightly in its talons — a tiny gray kitten struggling to break free.

As she approached, the hawk attempted to fly away with him but dropped the kitten onto the curb. Without hesitation, Lucy pulled over and rushed toward the frightened kitten. The terrified little kitten rolled onto his back, hissing and clawing defensively when Lucy reached him, clearly shaken after the traumatic ordeal.

Lucy gently scooped him up and brought him safely into her car, realizing she had arrived just moments in time to save his life.

Unsure what to do next, Lucy contacted her friend Jonna, who runs Woof Ave Rescue in Auburn, Alabama. Jonna immediately agreed to help, and the kitten was taken in for care. Amazingly, despite surviving an attack from a hawk, the tiny stray escaped with only a few scratches and a great deal of fear.

“Talk about [a] lucky day… Today is this boy’s luckiest day!” Woof Ave Rescue wrote. “Thankfully, he’s only got a few scratches, and [is] very shook up, but will be ok now. Seems only fitting to name him Hawk.”

Now named Hawk, the kitten is recovering comfortably with the rescue’s other cats and slowly adjusting to his new life.

He’s currently being fostered by a feral mama cat named Poppy, who Woof Ave saved. She is looking after several kittens including Hawk. “She loves these babies and they’re even helping her learn to like us more. She may not be so feral when her foster kids are done with her,” the rescue wrote.

Once he is fully healed, he’ll be adopted into a loving forever home — a future he may never have had if Lucy hadn’t happened to drive by at exactly the right moment.

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