Overview
- A train driver reported two kittens and a mother cat on the tracks near Broekhuizen, prompting ProRail and the Dierenambulance to respond with staff and cages.
- The sighting, which occurred Friday morning, led crews to briefly stop trains and then require passing trains to slow while capture efforts took place.
- ProRail staff caught one black kitten on Friday afternoon and the remaining kitten and the mother were captured by Saturday morning; all three were taken to the Dierenambulance.
- The Dierenambulance will check the cats for microchips and send unchipped animals to a shelter, and the reporting driver has offered to adopt them if no chip is found.
- ProRail coordinates track safety with traffic control and responders decide whether to halt trains or impose speed restrictions based on the size of the animals and the risk to operations.