--- title: Kittens Mouse and Wifi Shipped in Box on Truck Survive description: It remains a mystery how the 2-week old kittens wound up in a box full of fiberglass equipment shipped from Hollywood to Chula Vista, California canonical: https://time.com/68062/kittens-shipped-in-box-on-truck-survive/ author: Anita Hamilton article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-18T19:27:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:08:54.749Z og:title: Kittens Mouse and Wifi Shipped in Box on Truck Survive og:description: It remains a mystery how the 2-week old kittens wound up in the box og:url: https://time.com/68062/kittens-shipped-in-box-on-truck-survive/ 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: Kittens Mouse and Wifi Shipped in Box on Truck Survive twitter:description: It remains a mystery how the 2-week old kittens wound up in the box twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Kittens Survive Accidentally Being Boxed Up and Shipped by [Anita Hamilton](https://time.com/author/anita-hamilton/) ## Anita Hamilton Apr 18, 2014 7:27 PM UTC by [Anita Hamilton](https://time.com/author/anita-hamilton/) ## Anita Hamilton Apr 18, 2014 7:27 PM UTC Two feisty black kittens with their umbilical cords still attached survived a 130-mile journey packed up in a sealed box full of fiberglass equipment earlier this week. A Cox Communications warehouse worker found the siblings while unloading a delivery in Chula Vista, California that had recently arrived from Hollywood. The kittens were quickly shuttled to the [San Diego Humane Society](http://www.sdhumane.org/site/PageNavigator/MouseandWifi.html), where they are being nursed back to health. “We’re actually one of the only around the clock kitten nurseries in the country,” says Humane Society worker Kelly Schry. While no one knows for sure how the kitties wound up on the semi, Humane Society Nurse Jenny Bonomini offered a plausible explanation to [KGTV](http://www.10news.com/news/kittens-packed-in-box-shipped-from-los-angeles-to-san-diego-041614?utm%5Fsource=facebook&utm%5Fmedium=referral&utm%5Fcampaign=mastertwtr): “What we think happened was the mom had the babies and she put them in a safe spot … and she left. Then they got boxed up and they got shipped.” Now named Mouse and Wifi, the fluffy kitties will be moved to a foster home in a few weeks, spayed and neutered, then put up for adoption. We’re pretty sure they won’t be orphans for long. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/68062/kittens-shipped-in-box-on-truck-survive/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/68062/kittens-shipped-in-box-on-truck-survive/"},"headline":"Kittens Survive Accidentally Being Boxed Up and Shipped","datePublished":"2014-04-18T19:27:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:54.749Z","description":"It remains a mystery how two kittens wound up in a box full of fiberglass equipment shipped from Hollywood to Chula Vista, California. They are being nursed back to health at San Diego Humane Society","url":"https://time.com/68062/kittens-shipped-in-box-on-truck-survive/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","rescue"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Anita Hamilton","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/anita-hamilton/"}],"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/68062/kittens-shipped-in-box-on-truck-survive/","name":"Kittens Survive Accidentally Being Boxed Up and Shipped"}}]}] ```