Couple Opens Wrapped Lava Rocks At Menards And Suddenly A Tiny Furball Falls Out

It was just supposed to be a regular trip to the hardware store. Shelby Elko and her husband had only stopped by Menards to pick up some concrete.

But right there, between shelves of building materials, something unexpected happened, something that would melt Shelby’s heart.

While they were figuring out how many bags of concrete they needed, a faint little sound broke through the store’s clatter.

A tiny meow.

At first, Shelby thought she was imagining it. But then it came again.

Curious, they started looking around. That’s when they noticed a movement inside a shrink-wrapped stack of lava rocks.

Tightly sealed, nothing should have been moving in there. But something definitely was.

Shelby’s husband gently tore open the plastic, and suddenly, out popped the tiniest gray kitten, tumbling down like a little ball of fluff.

He landed on a pile of bags with a soft thump, wide-eyed and stunned, but thankfully okay.

The couple was completely taken aback by what they had just found, as Shely shared in a YouTube video:

“We were just in absolute shock.”

Neither of them could believe that such a fragile little life had been trapped inside that heavy stack of rocks, hidden away and unheard until then.

There was no mama cat in sight. No siblings, either. Just this one brave baby who had somehow ended up sealed inside a stack of rocks, meowing his lungs out.

He couldn’t have been more than five days old, and it broke Shelby’s heart to think of how scared and confused he must have been.

She didn’t know where he came from or how he got there, but one thing was clear: he wasn’t going back to that pile of lava rocks.

So Shelby took him straight to her home.

She bottle-fed him milk and kept a close eye on him through every nap, every wiggle, every little squeak.

She called him Oscar, just until a better name came along. But honestly, Oscar suited him just perfectly.

Then, the very next day, something surprising happened. Shelby heard that about a mama cat and her kittens found at the same store.

Could Oscar belong to them?

She rushed over with him, hoping maybe he’d get a little reunion. But once they saw the kittens, it was obvious that Oscar was way too young to be part of their family.

But even if they weren’t blood, the other kittens welcomed him. And Oscar, despite being the tiniest of the bunch, fit right in.

Everyone agreed it was a good idea for him to stay with the others, just so he wouldn’t grow up alone.

And so the mama cat and her kittens, including Oscar, went into foster care where they could finally rest, feel safe, and get the love they needed.

The foster mom keeps Shelby updated every day, saying Oscar is doing amazing. He’s tiny, sure, but fierce, hungry, and growing stronger every day.

Now, Shelby is counting down the days until she can bring him home for good. Every update she gets makes her heart swell.

Oscar’s story could’ve ended so differently. But instead, it turned into something beautiful: a little miracle hidden in a stack of lava rocks, now safe, loved, and thriving.

And for Shelby, he’s already become family.