you wanna put in the awful details? the kittens were not just wrapped around branches, they had never gotten their first milk. It looked like lola gave birth, the kittens wandered around for mama and never found her and so got all tangled up in the briars. Poor lola wanted her babies, she came back for them but was continuously scared by people and someone who was going to clear out all the yard trash. Anyway, all the kittens strayed, all were not mewing because they were freezing to death, and lola is blind. jan can give the story on how we got mom lola after putting the 4 frozen babies on my stomach.