--- title: Catfishing Men Rescue Kittens on Boat in River description: Men rescue kittens while on a boat in the Black Warrior River in a feat that has been called catfishing canonical: https://time.com/4017883/catfishing-alabama-black-warrior-river-kittens/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-31T20:40:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:24:06.470Z og:title: Watch Men Rescue These Tiny Kittens While Fishing og:description: Adorable og:url: https://time.com/4017883/catfishing-alabama-black-warrior-river-kittens/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Men Rescue These Tiny Kittens While Fishing twitter:description: Adorable twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Men Rescue These Tiny Kittens While Fishing  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Aug 31, 2015 8:40 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Aug 31, 2015 8:40 PM UTC Two men appear to have spotted and rescued kittens while fishing on a boat in Alabama’s Black Warrior River Saturday. Jason Frost uploaded video of the moment when he and his fellow fisherman, Brandon Key, pull two orange tabby kittens out of the water and put them on their boat. As Frost joked on Facebook, “This puts a new spin on the term ‘catfishing.'” News outlets have been having a field day with this story, as headlines range from “Catfishing turns into cat fishing on the Warrior River” to the completely over-the-top “You caught to be _kitten_ me?” Catfishing Men Rescue Kittens on Boat in River ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4017883/catfishing-alabama-black-warrior-river-kittens/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4017883/catfishing-alabama-black-warrior-river-kittens/"},"headline":"Watch Men Rescue These Tiny Kittens While Fishing","datePublished":"2015-08-31T20:40:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:24:06.470Z","description":"Adorable","url":"https://time.com/4017883/catfishing-alabama-black-warrior-river-kittens/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4017883/catfishing-alabama-black-warrior-river-kittens/","name":"Watch Men Rescue These Tiny Kittens While Fishing"}}]}] ```