Oh-so-sweet cop rescue of cat
That’s no Easter Bunny!
A pair of Brooklyn cops made a purr-fect rescue on Easter Sunday, saving a 7-day-old kitten trapped in a sewer grate next to their precinct stationhouse.
They gave him an Easter-appropriate name to boot: Cadbury.
Officer Ronette Benjamin first heard the kitty’s cries at 9 a.m. on Sunday, when she walked into her basement office in the 63rd Precinct stationhouse on Brooklyn Ave. in Flatlands. At first, she thought nothing of it, but when she came back to her office at 1 p.m., she heard more meows.
Her window looks out to a nearby sewer grate, and when she looked down, she saw the kitten, laying on a batch of leaves, police said.
Benjamin enlisted the help of fellow Officer Katherine Wirth, who has more than 10 years of experience as a veterinarian’s assistant.
The duo then got assistance to lift the heavy sewer grate; one of the taller officers jumped down about 6 feet to grab the kitty and hand it up to Wirth.
They spirited Cadbury to a nearby vet’s office, where they learned he was about a week old and in good health. The kitty went to Animal Care Centers of NYC, then to a cat rescue facility.
The NYPD announced the rescue on its Twitter feed Tuesday night.
“When people think about Easter they think of religious observances & Easter egg hunts, but now you can add a kitten rescue to that list! Officers Benjamin & Wirth from the @NYPD63Pct heard this kitten’s cries coming from a sewer grate, rescued him, & fittingly named him Cadbury,” the tweet reads.
In an odd twist, Cadbury’s not the first trapped kitty rescued from the sewers near the stationhouse. On April 8, another officer found trapped kittens in a different grate.
Cops couldn’t say Tuesday why kittens keep winding up trapped near the stationhouse.