Would you let Your House be Ruined to Save a Kitten?
May 24th 2009 21:00
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I remember hearing a question along these lines on one of channel 7’s RSPCA Animal Rescue commercials.
What a silly question. For some people, the answer would be clearly no but for me, it would definitely be a yes.
The thought of one of Butterscotch’s harmless little relatives (which is what I like to refer to all cats as), mewing away underneath my house would be too awful to contemplate. Of course I would call the RSPCA and they would be welcome to cut away sections of my house large enough for them to get the kitten out. If I was renting, I would ask my landlord for permission and then cross my fingers hoping he’d agree.
But even if he said no, it may still be possible to get the kitten out by flushing it out with water. I remember seeing the RSPCA apply this ingenious solution on an episode of RSPCA Animal Rescue. Regular viewers will remember the story of the cat that was stuck inside a drain. The cat’s owners had blocked off one end of the pipe so the cat couldn’t go anywhere. The RSPCA tried to get the cat out by sticking a long pole inside a drain that had a net attached to it. The officer was trying to get the net over the cat and then drag it back out of the drain. Unfortunately, this resulted in the cat moving further inside the drain, away from the exit. The officer then tried using a garden hose to flood the drain so the sight of water would entice the cat to escape but the force of the water was too weak and the cat stayed put.
In the end, the fire department were called. Their officers blasted a huge jet of water inside the drain and the cat ran for the exit, enabling the RSPCA to rescue it.
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