Sick kittens returned safe, but hungry

YOUNGSTOWN — Two kittens that were stolen Thursday from the Cat Ladies’ Society shelter on Mahoning Avenue were returned safe, though hungry, Saturday afternoon.

Maria Guyan, shelter director, said a man walked into the shelter at 1:30 p.m. with a pillowcase.

“He said, ‘Here are your kittens,’” she said.

The pillowcase wasn’t moving.

“It scared me half to death,” she said. She asked the man if the kittens were dead, and he didn’t answer.

But when she looked in the pillowcase, Pookie, a 4-week-old brown tabby, and David, an 8-week-old Siamese mix, were fine.

But they were very hungry.

The man who returned them said his drunken, bipolar girlfriend had wandered into the shelter and she thought the kittens, in cages not far from the front door, were cute. She snatched them.

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