PURR- FECT ENDING T O KIT TY T ALE
A LITTLE kitten has had a catastrophic day but is now feline fine.
Firefighters yesterday afternoon rescued a tiny kitten from inside the body of a rental car being used by visiting members of the Bangarra Dance Theatre troupe.
Four firefighters needed to lift the car up on a jack and remove the front right wheel before they could reach the tiny stowaway.
Station officer David McBaron said it took about 50 minutes to free the kitten from between the body and the furnishings of the vehicle.
“Being a kitten it can get into a lot of smaller, more inaccessible places that larger animals normally would be able to get into and subsequently that made it quite difficult to get where we needed to get to get the kitten out,” he said.
“It’s been quite a process to get it out. I think this has taken us about 50- odd minutes by my calculation and it’s been quite literally all four members of the crew working on the job, which for a little bitty animal is a fair bit of a commitment.
“But we’ve got the cat. We didn’t have to cut the car to pieces so that’s a bit of a win for everyone and hopefully it finds a home.
Dancer Sidney Saltner was one of the occupants of the car.
He said while driving back to the Quest apartments on Palmer St, they had pulled into a shopping centre car park and heard a cat meowing.
“We thought it was a cat somewhere else and we’ve pulled up here at the hotel and then we heard the cat again and thought ‘ OK, where is it?’
“Then we heard it was coming from the bonnet of the car.”
The kitten will be handed over to the RSPCA.