Overview
- The cats, discovered Wednesday morning at the Hemelingen cemetery entrance on Marschstraße, were packed into two sealed cardboard boxes.
- Officers counted three adult cats and 20 newborn kittens in boxes taped shut with only a few air holes.
- The cartons were soaked with urine and one contained a small amount of cat food.
- One presumed mother escaped when officers opened the boxes, and the remaining 22 received first aid at a police station before transfer to Tierheim Bremen.
- Microchip checks on the adults found no matches, and police opened a case under the animal-protection law and asked witnesses to call 0421-362-3888.