SEPTA workers rescue cat and 5 kittens

SEPTA Workers Rescue Cat with Her 5 Kittens Trapped in Market-Frankford Line Station

On Monday evening, SEPTA received a call about kittens trapped within the walls of a Market-Frankford Line station. By the following day, workers had successfully rescued a cat and her five kittens, who are now under the care of a local rescue group.

Transportation officials are still unsure how the animals became trapped inside the 63rd Street Station in West Philly, located near the city’s border with Millbourne, Delaware County. The mother cat and two of the kittens are currently with the Stray Cat Relief Fund, a Philly and New Jersey-based organization that helps find homes for stray cats. A SEPTA employee took the other three kittens home, but the rescue group hopes to reunite them with their mother soon, as they are still nursing.

The situation began around 6 p.m. on Monday, when a SEPTA supervisor received a call about “kittens possibly being inside a wall or ceiling,” according to Andrew Busch, the transit authority’s director of media relations. Two SEPTA employees spent several hours searching, eventually finding and freeing one kitten from the ceiling. At that time, they were unable to locate any other cats.

By Tuesday afternoon, another manager searched the area and discovered two more kittens along with their mother. The final two kittens were found later that evening.

The Stray Cat Relief Fund is now looking for foster homes for the mother cat, named Joan after Philadelphia’s first female trolley operator, Joan Woollcott, and her two kittens. The kittens have not yet been named.

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