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Nothing out of the ordinary occurred when he chose to tidy up the garden, until he discovered five puppies concealed beneath an old mattress.<\/p>\n
He brought them to an animal shelter, where the staff was astonished to find out a week later that the puppies he had rescued were not dogs at all\u2026<\/p>\n
Discover exactly what they were.<\/strong><\/p>\n Craig Mcgettrick was tidying up the garden alongside a coworker. While they were engaged in some spring cleaning around the house, they stumbled upon an old, filthy mattress.<\/p>\n When they chose to shift the mattress, they uncovered something surprising. It revealed a den of five tiny animals that were taking refuge underneath it.<\/p>\n Craig\u2019s initial thought was that someone must have known they would be clearing out trash from that area and intentionally left the animals there\u2026<\/p>\n After sharing a few photos of the critters on social media, the guy thought it would be best to take them to a shelter for the care they required.<\/p>\n Craig packed the puppies into a box and transported them to an animal shelter.<\/p>\n However, the story took an unexpected twist when the founder of a fox organization stumbled upon Craig\u2019s social media posts featuring him with the little animals.<\/p>\n The creator of the group mentioned that a \u201creally sweet lady\u201d had reached out to them via Facebook, sharing images of what she thought were fox cubs and inquiring if there was any chance they weren\u2019t.<\/p>\n As soon as I saw the pictures, I was certain these were indeed fox cubs.<\/p>\n All the staff at the animal shelter assumed the five were just sleeping dogs.<\/p>\n According to the national fox club, a mother fox had used the mattress as a den to care for her young.<\/p>\n They aimed to find a way to reunite the baby chicks with their mother, but they were unsure how to proceed.<\/p>\n It was decided that the cubs should be returned to Craig\u2019s garden, where the mattress had initially been found, so they were carefully packed and placed into a box.<\/p>\n They were surprised to see a fox rushing towards the container. After a thorough inspection, the fox mother took the chicks and dashed away.<\/p>\n The cubs would have a better chance of thriving if raised by their natural mother in the wild instead of in an animal shelter.<\/p>\n In Sri Lanka, a packed passenger bus crashed off a cliff, leaving 21 passengers dead and at least 24 injured.<\/strong><\/p>\n The tragedy, which was one of the bloodiest in Sri Lankan history for decades, happened early on Sunday morning in a mountainous region close to the town of Kotmale, some 86 miles east of the capital Colombo.<\/p>\n When the driver lost control and the state-owned bus went off the road before daybreak, it was carrying about 70 passengers, which was roughly 20 more than it could hold, according to authorities.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are trying to establish whether it was a mechanical failure or if the driver fell asleep at the wheel,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0a local police official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n The injured were sent to two nearby hospitals, according to Deputy Transport Minister Prasanna Gunasena, who was on the site. The bus was reportedly transporting scores of Buddhist pilgrims.<\/p>\n \u201cTwenty one have died and we are trying to identify the victims,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Gunasena added.<\/p>\n The minister claimed that if locals hadn\u2019t assisted in removing the injured from the twisted wreckage and transporting them to the hospital, the death toll might have been greater.<\/p>\n As workmen and others assisted in removing injured individuals from the debris, images from the accident showed the bus laying inverted at the base of a cliff.<\/p>\n The bus crashed wheels up into a tea plantation after the roof and side panels were sheared off and more than half of the seats were torn off the floor.<\/p>\n The driver was one of many hospitalised for injuries.<\/p>\n One survivor told a local reporter that he was fortunate to have escaped with only minor injuries because he had been in the front section of the bus.<\/p>\n \u201cThe bus was leaning to the left side and as the driver was negotiating a bend, he lost control and it fell down the precipice,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0said the unnamed man.<\/p>\n The bus was travelling roughly 155 kilometres from the central city of Kurunegala to the pilgrimage town of Kataragama in the island\u2019s far south.<\/p>\n In Sri Lanka, deadly bus accidents are frequent, particularly in the hilly areas, and are frequently caused by careless driving as well as narrow, badly maintained roadways.<\/p>\n Sri Lanka\u2019s roadways rank among the most dangerous in the world, with an average of 3,000 traffic fatalities every year.<\/p>\n On Sunday, one of the worst bus accidents to hit Sri Lanka since a driver raced a train at a level crossing in the town of Polgahawela in April 2005 occurred.<\/p>\n Thirty-seven passengers were slain, but the bus driver escaped with minor injuries.<\/p>\n Additionally, in March 2021, a privately owned bus went down a precipice at Passara, approximately 100 miles east of the accident scene on Sunday, killing 13 passengers and the driver.<\/p>\n The tragic event follows the death of a tourist in Sri Lanka who was dangling her head out of a train when she fell off it.<\/p>\n In February, Olga Perminova, 53, chose to lean out of an open door in a fatal photo opportunity while travelling on the renowned Podi Menike rail line.<\/p>\n After clinging to two rails and dangling her head from the carriage, the woman reportedly collided with a rock and sustained terrible head injuries.<\/p>\n During the \u2018vacation of a lifetime\u2019 in Sri Lanka in February, two guests, including a young British influencer, reportedly died unexpectedly after being poisoned by pesticides used to treat bed bugs at the backpackers\u2019 hostel where they were staying.<\/p>\n Just four days into her ideal vacation to the sunny island, Derby resident Ebony McIntosh, 24, was taken to the hospital on Saturday along with other visitors to receive treatment for respiratory issues, nausea, and vomiting.<\/p>\n However, Ebony and another German visitor who experienced the same symptoms passed away within hours of getting to the hospital.<\/p>\n Ebony and the unidentified German woman may have been poisoned by toxic pesticides used to kill bed bugs in a nearby room 72 hours prior to her breakdown, according to reports from Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nothing out of the ordinary occurred when he chose to tidy up the garden, until he discovered five puppies concealed beneath an old mattress. 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