A white kitten got trapped on a ledge and found itself surrounded by a number of would-be rescuers, who were also caught on video doing their best to make sure the little creature would not get hurt.
The video showed one man holding the basket under the ledge to catch the kitten. Above, someone tried to nudge the kitten forward, into the basket, with a rod.
Several floors down, on the ground, were two other men. They held an outstretched piece of cloth to catch the kitten if it fell or jumped.
By the time the video ended, however, the kitten could still be seen on the ledge, looking around.
Nevertheless, netizens praised “the whole kampong” that “tried to save a kitten,” as the caption on the video, posted on the Singapore Incidents Facebook and Instagram pages on Wednesday (May 18), read.
Even when one commenter made fun of one of the men who tried to save the kitten, another quickly defended the rescuers.
Recently, a kitten found stuck in a glue trap at Tampines market alarmed cat lovers.
A Facebook user named Grace Chai shared a video of a kitten stuck in a glue trap that was meant for rats at a wet market at Tampines Street 81. She said that she found the kitten exhausted, as it had tried to free itself from the trap for hours.
Chai said that the cat was eventually rescued by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), and was attended to by a vet. The kitten was put on antibiotics and will be vaccinated in two weeks, after which it will be put up for adoption.
According to Ms Chai, the market at Tampines Street 81, the place where she found the kitten, has a perennial rat infestation problem. She added that a rat scurried past her as she was attending to the kitten.
SPCA has, in the previous years, appealed to AVA to institute a ban on glue-board traps because of the suffering caused to animals that are trapped in them, not only rats but other species as well.
Glue traps are usually placed indoors for rodent control and pests caught on these boards are thrown away with the traps, leaving the trapped animal to suffer for days, subjected to starvation and dehydration. Animals with their faces stuck in the glue will slowly suffocate. In order to escape the trap, some animals will chew off their own limbs. /TISG
Kitten found stuck in glue trap at Tampines market alarms cat lovers