Rescuers found the three-week-old kittens with four older kittens inside a Holyoke, Massachusetts, dumpster Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013.

Peppermint Pig Animal Rescue Vice President Melissa Thomas said that the kitten, who is named Prissy, was brought into the ...

“Since the kitten is only about nine or 10 weeks old, that means that there are more kittens around that area, so we are going to go back and try to trap the rest of the family and also get them ...

It hurts your heart. It hurts your soul to just think that someone could do something like that,” the shelter’s vice president told a news outlet.