Cashing in a few of its nine lives, this cat was lucky to be alive when it was rescued from its predicament.
"The cat was just hanging under there," said Bristol Police Lt. Nick Guercia, who was one of the feline's rescuers. "How this cat didn't get killed is just amazing."
Which leads me to ask .. how the heck did it get there in the first place??
This lucky kitty is currently under a veterinarian's care in Bristol, Rhode Island.
Poor little thing. I bet that all the birds who went by were laughing their tail feathers off.
Call me suspicious, but my bet for "how?" would be human cruelty.
Cog, I have a kitty who managed to cram his head into a similarly sized hole in a wrought-iron sculpture without any outside assistance. We tried greasing him up and sliding him out, but it didn't work. Luckily, our neighbor was out on his back porch - of course this happened in the wee hours of the morning - and he brought over some bolt cutters to extract the poor little guy. We guess that the cat's lower jaw must have flexed to let him shove his head through the hole, but the same thing didn't work in reverse...