A heartwarming clip of a cat rescue mission in China’s Sichuan province has gone viral on Chinese social media.
The cat is seen perched precariously on the narrow ledge of a high-rise building. A woman who lives there chanced upon the cat and found it odd that it was stuck on the 15th storey.
She called in the professionals — a group of ‘cat firefighters’ based in both Chengdu and Chongqing. Yes, that’s what they’re actually known as, and they specialise in saving cats from sticky situations, and facilitating adoptions of strays.
When he arrived, the firefighter found scratches on the ledge and deduced that the trembling cat had probably “almost fallen to its death”.
He urged onlookers to keep quiet so the cat could calm down and get used to his voice. With the help of the building’s residents, they extended a net out of the window from the floor below.
The rescuer then slowly lowered a rope and tightened it around the cat’s abdomen. He lifted the terrified cat to safety and put it in a cage.