This makes no sense to me either. Last September, we found a litter of 4 dumped on the side of the road near our house. 1 had been squashed by a car, one took its last breath in front of me and the other two came home with us. There is a shelter less than 3 miles up the road! Why on earth they would throw them in a ditch on a sparsely travelled road where they were unlikely to be found--and where there are no houses, so they had to drive over to drop them there I'm quite certain--when they could have driven for 2 more minutes and at least gotten them to a warm dry spot? ERGH!