Cats always end up on their feet, but they sometimes need some extra help. For example, the fire brigade in Tilburg had to break open a wall on Tuesday evening to save a cat who was stuck under a concrete staircase for hours. It is not the first time that the fire brigade or the animal ambulance has to save a cat from a plight. The following cats also lost almost their ninth life.
The Tilburg cat was already taken out of the wall after a few hours, but a cat in Sint Willebrord was stuck a little longer in 2018. The owner had lost her beloved pet for three weeks until her neighbor heard a strange sound. It turned out to be the cat that was locked up between two walls of garage boxes. The fire brigade came to save the animal.
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About three years ago, Kat Charlie’s owner was also worried. Charlie was stuck for 24 hours in a chimney of a house in the center of Eindhoven. The fire brigade was called in because the cat no longer came out. With a platform and a catch stick, the hangover was eventually rescued from the chimney.
The fire brigade also had to pull out with a platform in 2023, but then to save a cat off the roof. The cat was in Valkenswaard in the roof gutter of a house on Esdoornstraat. Eventually the owner went upstairs with the aerial platform to fish her little friend out of the gutter.
Food cats are only too happy to do, but that can also go wrong. A cat in Eindhoven was so felt like her portion of salmon with cod that she started to eat eagerly from the can of cat food. So eager that she completely put her cup in it and got stuck. That became almost fatal, but luckily the animal ambulance came to the rescue. Her head was extracted extremely carefully from the can.
Poes Flow from Drunen also ended up in 2022, but then under the hood of a car. The British short hair was stuck between the engine block and the bumper. Her owner called in a car mechanic, but he referred her to the fire brigade. No fewer than eight firefighters arrived to save Flow. Once at home she lay down on the floor like a diva, as if nothing had happened.
And where Flow was under the hood, another cat managed to lock itself in an ice -cold car in Eindhoven in 2021. The animal ambulance received a report about a cat on a shelf of a black car. The employees of the animal ambulance decided to ring at Huizen where light was still on. With success, because they managed to find the owner. The red hangover apparently secretly slipped into the car without realizing it.
The Breda Kat Elmo also brought himself to a plight last year. His owners lost him for eight days until they heard very hard from the crawl space under their flat in Breda. The flat is on the water so they couldn’t reach it themselves. The fire brigade arrived on site to open the crawl space. Divers from the fire brigade reunited Elmo – under heavy protest – again with his owners.
