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Tiny Kitten About To Be Crushed On Highway When 1 Cop Makes A Bold Move
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They say the best things come in small packages.
But sometimes, small things can also cause a lot of trouble. Ever try having a picnic with a horde of ants nearby?
In this particular case, something very small caused one major snarl on a very large road:
You’d think it would take something big like a tractor-trailer overturning to stop traffic but in this case, it was something tiny and adorable!
Police in Auckland, New Zealand were called about a “small orange and white ball of fluff” that was trying its hardest to cause accidents on the Southwestern Motorway.
She might be cute and cuddly, but she didn’t take kindly to big police guys chasing after her. She was terrified, of course!
“In all, it took a little over a half an hour for them to get her,” Shelley Nahr, media coordinator for the department, told The Dodo.
When the police first showed up, she was huddled up against a concrete barrier, looking quite innocent and frightened.
When they came closer however, she turned into a little spitfire and took off.
“Unfortunately she was spooked by the approaching officer and quickly bolted across three lanes of live traffic,” police said on Facebook.
“She narrowly avoided the worst.”
Now trapped on a small strip in the center of the freeway, the police had no choice but to temporarily close the entire highway down.
This extra precaution proved to be the right decision, and they were finally able to wrangle the kitten and bring her to safety.
She might be in police custody, but she wasn’t ready to give up!
After an officer put her into his patrol car, he made a quick phone call before pulling away. When he finished his call he noticed the kitten wasn’t anywhere in sight…
Where could she be? He knew she was closed up in the car with him, and it’s not like there are a lot of hiding places in a car.
“He searched high and low and found nothing,” police said.
“Until he heard the faintest meow coming from inside the dashboard.”
So, realizing their rescue wasn’t complete yet, off they went to a local mechanic to rescue her for the second time in one day.
After removing the entire dash from the patrol car, mechanics found the kitten just where they had expected: tucked around a heating fan!
The cops were pretty impressed by her plucky spirit.
They were a little frustrated by the results, of course, but still, they had to admit she was a fighter!
In fact, the woman who first took the call that alerted the police to her predicament decided the little cat deserved a good home.
And, she had a dog named Dobby at home that really needed a new best friend. So, off went the little kitten to her new home and new best friend!
And she got a new name…Winky, the name of Dobby the Elf in the Harry Potter series’ best friend.
Little Winky is happy and safe in her new home. No need to run from the cops any more. Her life on the lam is over, and she has nothing but blue skies and all the kibble she can eat ahead of her.
Thanks so much to the police officers who risked public wrath by shutting down a major highway just to save a little kitten’s life!
She was so little, really, how much trouble could she be…? 😉
Source: The Dodo
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