Cat-astrophe averted: Social network saves trapped cat

Get short URL

Published time: January 09, 2013 13:58
Edited time: January 09, 2013 18:26

Cat rescued in Belarus (Still from YouTube video/mchsMogilev)

Tags

Animals, Internet, Russia

A cat has been rescued by the powers of a Russian social network after a video of him locked in a car went viral and reached the vehicle’s owner.

The poor creature spent at least four days locked in the car in the Belarusian city of Mogilev. Throughout this time activists put a lot of effort to rescue the furry prisoner.

Under the country’s law neither police nor emergency services could open the car without permission from the owner, who did not show up to his ride for days.

The desperate kitty was first spotted by those passing the car every day. Realizing the cat must have been locked in the vehicle for days, a group of self-organized activists started a rescue operation.

First they put signs all over the car urging the owner to unlock it and “to release the kitten.”

Then someone made a video of the kitten and uploaded it to one of the most popular Russian social networks, Odnoklassniki (Classmates), which is also extensively used in Belarus.

The video went viral and the missing owner was at last found. The man immediately went to rescue the kitten.

“I have been told via internet. ‘Free the cat!’ people told me. I was totally confused: Which cat? Where?” said the car owner as he finally opened the vehicle.

“The car broke down and has been parked here for around a month. But I think the cat would not survive a whole month here. I just don’t know how it got inside,” he added as Mogilyev News quotes him.

The mystery of how the cat sneaked into the car remains unresolved.

“Dear car owner! Animal inside! Urgently open your car!” reads the sign on the locked vehicle in Belarus (Still from YouTube video/mchsMogilev)

Comments (7)

Billy1 10.01.2013 23:21

This is just a classic case of human neglichanse! There are still too many, that still suffer from the dilution, that animals don't feel, fear, pain and even that they do not have any memories!But let tell you a tiny little story from my very own youth! There was a time I had a rifle powered by small led pellets. And one day, a lonely little bird sat on a powercord, right outside where I lived! And I took a shoot at it, and I was unfortunally shooting off one of it's tail feathers! I did not think much more about it, but the next day, when I reurned from school, the bird came, and it started to circle around me! It was no doubt in my mind that it was the same bird, because it was lacking that tale feather, The bird kept on meeting me, and circled over my head, until one day, I had a clean shirt on, but the bird dropped a typical and rather big birdsdropping, and hit me on the shoulder! The conclusion is that nearly all creatures have a memory!

Undo

Clair (unregistered) 10.01.2013 09:58

Dima Yakovlev locked up in the car by his adoptive parents, did not survive, this cat did

Undo

WHAT? (unregistered) 09.01.2013 22:16

That is dumb. The cat should have obviously been released as soon as it was observed. The humane society should have assumed jurisdiction. Time for Russia to catch a clue when it comes to prevention of cruelty to animals.

Undo

View all comments (7)