Three little kittens have been rescued after being found living on a building site.

The felines were found inside a large bag on the site in Ramsgate and taken in by the RSPCA Isle of Thanet branch.

The trio of boys couldn't be left behind as the site is being cleared and the mum had run off.

They will be hand raised for a while unless the mother, who has since been spotted, can be caught.

As they are between two and three weeks old, they will need regular feeding until they are five to six weeks old, at which point they will be weaned onto solid food.

The kittens will then be available for rehoming when they are nine weeks old and have had the first part of their two part initial vaccinations.

The animal charity is encouraging cat owners to get their pets neutered, saying this type of situation is easily avoidable if people did so.

Centre manager of RSPCA Thanet, Clive Martin, said: "Lack of neutering is a big problem and leads to stray and feral colonies, which inevitably leads to disease and fighting with owned pet cats

"In keeping with the ‘Prevention’ part of the RSPCA name, we see neutering as essential to our core values.

"As such we offer a neutering service based at the animal centre.

"Two clinics a month (minimum), whereby cat owners on low or no income can have their cats neutered and microchipped at a heavily subsidised rate. £5 for males, £25 for females.

"People with a steady income can also use the clinic but will be charged more.

"Female cats are able to reproduce from about four months, and it isn’t uncommon for us to see mums give birth when they are barely six months old!

"Unneutered tom cats will fight over territory and mating, and as a result are more likely to be involved in potentially fatal accidents on the road and also sustain diseases and painful abscesses as a result of bites that are expensive to treat at the vets."