I bet there's one upset momma cat out there.

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5 Kittens Accidentally Shipped to Vermont

VERGENNES, Vt. - A worker in the returns department at Country Home
Products got a return and a surprise when he opened a brush trimmer
sent back from South Carolina. Inside the box was the trimmer - and
five kittens.

The kittens survived the bumpy and hot two-day trip to Vermont and are
doing fine.

The South Carolina customers returned the trimmer, a gas-powered
contraption on wheels that cuts grass, weeds and brush, because they
wanted a field and brush mower instead, said Deb Peters, who works in
the Country Home Products returns department. The box had been stored
in a barn a mile from the South Carolinians' home, and they apparently
sealed the box without looking inside, Peters said.

FedEx shipped the box containing the trimmer and the kittens from South
Carolina, and it arrived in Vergennes about noon Wednesday.

"My co-worker Alan Bean opened the box. Something moved. He jumped; and
he looked in again and there was five kittens," Peters said. "Three
black ones, a gray one and one that looked like a Siamese."

Country Home employees dashed to the nearby Vergennes Animal Hospital
and returned with bottles of kitten formula, which the kittens
devoured.

The 3-week-old kittens were taken to Addison County Humane Society in
Middlebury, where they met Hazel, a black domestic cat whose kittens
had just been weaned. Hazel is a now a surrogate mother to the kittens,
providing a steady diet until they can eat solid food, said Jill
Tucker, executive director of the Humane Society.