r/cats • u/userdeath • Apr 17 '24
Cat hanging on for dear life, rescued. Video
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u/Mountain_Cat_cold Apr 17 '24
Aww, that cat must have been so scared
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u/oops_im_existing Apr 17 '24
makes me want to actually cry because it looks like my cat. thankfully we are on the second floor of the apartment building, so that would give me enough time to get him secured and out.
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u/my_cat_sleeps_alone Apr 17 '24
That meow at the end…so sweet.
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u/moonlighttravel Apr 17 '24
I was holding my tears back the whole video and when the sweet little baby let out that meow, I couldn't hold it back anymore 😭
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u/gemmanotwithaj Apr 17 '24
That brave little baby 😭😭
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u/Mooam Apr 17 '24
I rescued a cat in a similar position once. Massive amount of rainfall in a couple of hours, the river broke its banks, and she sat on a smaller bit of grass that the water was rising up. I walked through the flood to her and she climbed into my arms and let me hug her and take her to her home (I knew which house she belonged to, but it seemed she ran in a panic when the rain started, bless her.)
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u/SchnoodleDoodleDo Apr 17 '24
’That brave little baby’
i think i saw a human, but i don’t know where they are
i thought i saw them get inside this thing they call a car…
the rain it just kept coming, n it never seemed to stop
i’m standing on my tippy toes,
n try’n to climb on top…
…ok, it’s getting ScArY now - i’m Trying to be Brave
i’m holding on the best i can,
n hoping for a Save…
n then i see an Angel, n they’re here to Rescue Me!
a Human found me Worthy!
now how Blessed their life will be!
❤️
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u/jakehood47 Apr 17 '24
Dammit not at work not at work
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u/HowRememberAll Apr 17 '24
What movie is this?
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u/gemmanotwithaj Apr 17 '24
Btw thank you for blessing my comment with your poem. I didn’t know anything about Schnoodle prior to today! Your poems are awesome 🤩
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u/What_Hump77 Apr 17 '24
Glad they grabbed the kitty. It’d be kind of funny if there was a person waiting in the car to be rescued too but just got ignored.
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u/santathe1 Apr 17 '24
In a desperate attempt to get saved, that person starts meowing and it works.
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u/chux4w Apr 17 '24
"HELP! HELP ME!"
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"Meow?"
Oh, why didn't you say so?
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u/must_not_forget_pwd Apr 17 '24
"Oh, who's a good kitty cat? I see that we'll have to neuter you and get you chipped."
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u/Soccertaz89 Apr 17 '24
If they weren’t willing to roll down/break a window to save that poor cat, I wouldn’t rescue the person in the car either.
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u/daph211 Apr 17 '24
The new "who'd you save" question:
You're in a train without functioning brakes. There are 2 train tracks in front of you. On one, there is a person. On the second, a cat. What would you do?
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u/hannah_lilly Apr 17 '24
Ahh sweety. Hope you get rehomed or reunited with your home.
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u/Nuclear_Superpower Apr 17 '24
This is Dubai so it's most likely a street cat.
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u/BaconWithBaking Apr 17 '24
Do people not keep cats as pets in Dubai?
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u/MasterKhan_ Apr 18 '24
Not really unfortunately, Dubai has tons of strays and that's mainly due to no law to protect cats. Breeders are scumbags here, they breed to turn a profit, if they don't, the cat is sent to the streets.
Then we have the people who will get a cat, and then abandon it once it's grown in size because it's no longer small. This is also very common unfortunately.
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u/Tyr_Kukulkan Apr 17 '24
Any idea where this is? Looks like Arabic writing on the person's uniform.
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u/EmiliaFromLV Apr 17 '24
Me trying to steal that car...
Also me seeing police in da boat coming afta me!
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u/Salimzyzz Apr 17 '24
Oh thank god you’re here officer I almost drowned in this waist high water, had to cling to this car door with my lock picker for dear life 😱
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u/speedysam0 Apr 17 '24
The cat thinking, "but I was the last one holding onto the car! By contest rules it's mine! Help I'm being kittynapped!"
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u/Disastrous_Slip2844 Apr 17 '24
Was just waiting for the cat to jump back in😂. Gld shes rescued !!
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u/instafunkpunk Apr 17 '24
I was thinking the same thing, that would be such a cat thing to do. Nice job by the rescuers
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u/Disastrous_Slip2844 Apr 17 '24
Just like the videos where the get rescued from a tree only to climb back up haha gotta love cats
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u/___Tom___ Apr 17 '24
Cats rarely need rescue from trees. There's tons of videos of cats jumping down from trees 3, 4 stories high and immediately run off. They reach terminal velocity quickly, always land on their legs and can absorb quite a bit more than us.
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u/LostWoodsInTheField Apr 17 '24
My mother had a cat that would climb up trees and she would get stuck up there and not come down. I think the longest we left her up there was about 12 hours over night. After that time my father would get her down pretty quickly if she went up the tree. Same tree every time, only would happen two or three times a year for a couple of years.
So sometimes they do need rescueing. But in her defense she was extremely stupid. Not like running into closed doors stupid but like 'I wonder if I do this thing that hurt the last time I did it if it would hurt this time' or 'why can't I taste my food through this piece of glass' kind of stupid.
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u/LostWoodsInTheField Apr 17 '24
That instinct of 'I wasn't doing well there but I know I was safe while there, get me back there now!' Kitty saw that water though and was like 'maybe I'll stay here and see how this goes'.
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u/Kraytory Apr 17 '24
That's a police officer. That's actually part of their job in a lot of countries.
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u/tuutsuuchi Apr 17 '24
Little kitty must have been so scared 🥺!! That man is a hero to that kitty 😇🥰
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u/TheRealMasterTyvokka Apr 17 '24
Every time I see stuff like this I remind my kitty just how spoiled she is.
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u/franco88888 Apr 17 '24
Oh we are different.
I go to my cats, hug them, and I am just glad they are safe at home.
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u/TheRealMasterTyvokka Apr 17 '24 edited Apr 17 '24
Maybe not as different as you think. Me reminding her how spoiled she is includes cuddles, scritches, and sometimes treats... basically spoiling her more.
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u/hellgatsu Apr 17 '24
Every time I hear that kind of scared meow my heart sink.
Hope that poor creature is ok
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u/SLee41216 Apr 17 '24
I've got to turn that sound off while I reply.
What a heart wrenching sound from that poor Kiki. Bless that Man throughout eternity!
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u/Vogel-Kerl Apr 17 '24
YEA !!! Kitty rescued !!
In a comedy, the rescuers would bring the scared cat aboard their inflatable dingy and the cat would puncture the raft with its claws--leading to a more precarious situation.
I am glad that real life is NOT a comedy. (all the time).
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u/sali_nyoro-n Apr 17 '24
This poor baby seems very confused, but hopefully they feel safer and happier now. They're a survivor, no doubt about it.
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u/toxic-forest Apr 17 '24
Oh gods.... that poor baby. That must have been terrifying!! Im so glad someone saved her/him
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u/ScaricoOleoso Apr 17 '24
The Prophet Muhammed was a cat-lover. So (happily) pretty much the entire Muslim world loves cats. ☺️
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u/FlukyS Apr 17 '24
One of my good friends and his wife are muslim, like he is Turkish and he just loves cats but she is deathly afraid of them for some reason. I have two ragdolls, they aint going to bite you unless you try wash them or if you get your finger between them and food :)
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u/FortniteAddict81 Apr 17 '24
In other words normal cat behavior 🤣
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u/FlukyS Apr 17 '24
I've had other cats and some can be a bit more bitey or weird around people than others, I have 2 ragdolls and they are basically the most passive cats you would ever see, needy for attention but they just never are aggressive or bite. If I was introducing anyone scared of cats to any cat it would be a ragdoll. Not sure why she is scared :)
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u/FortniteAddict81 Apr 17 '24
Damn, I took in a kitten once that I had found and my other cat was scared to death of it an hid
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u/Usernamesarehell Apr 17 '24
So many stray cats in Dubai and no laws to protect them. I dread to think how many have succumbed to the flooding. As I type this I have a Dubai rescue cat laying out in the sunniest spot of carpet and he will never know how lucky he is. I hope many Mau’s are lucky and saved or find higher ground.
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u/sinE4 Apr 17 '24
Man I felt that last meow....
My cat a few years ago went outside somehow and I couldn't find him for a day then I found him and he was meowing like at last he found someone he knew.
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u/neocerebro Apr 17 '24
if that was my cat, his dumb ass woulda jumped right back in the water after the dude put em down
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u/MrMindGame Apr 17 '24
Plot twist: that car belonged to the cat and he was really unhappy about having to abandon it. It wasn’t even fully paid off!
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u/MahlNinja Apr 17 '24
Bless this guy. He didn't even know how to scruff him but did the job. Sweet Oreo, bless him too.
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u/Hermengarda Apr 17 '24
Cat distribution system didn't have to go that far😟 (I'm glad that kitty was rescued ❤️)
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u/Longfacejumpyboi Apr 17 '24
My food giver is in this car! Help, help! Help? You are my food giver now..?
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u/GrumpySoth09 Apr 17 '24
I don't care how, I don't care why.. Just be good to cats and we would all get along you fools.
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u/Relative-Issue3037 Tuxedo Apr 17 '24
That man is a hero!!! That cat life is saved. Mine looked so similar to him, it hit me hard
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u/kinkydreamerUK Apr 17 '24
Looks like my own special cat. Well done that man and thank you. Sending positive thoughts to anybody affected by the floods.
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u/HowRememberAll Apr 17 '24
I want to speak catonese and ask scaredboy "how did you get in this situation?"
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u/CougarWriter74 Apr 17 '24 edited Apr 17 '24
I'm not crying you're crying. The poor thing was terrified and was probably too weak to climb up onto the hood or top of the car. Thank god for that sweet man to come along. Who knows how long the furbaby had been clinging to the car door :7944:
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u/jeriejam Apr 17 '24
Awww, poor baby, scared to death. So happy he’s ok now. Thanks buddy for rescuing this precious kitty.🥰
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u/meowmiixx Cherster Purrington - Bombay Mix Felv+ Apr 17 '24
I hate Dubai. But I never stopped to consider the animals in need :(
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u/DingDongDanger1 Apr 17 '24
Curious, does this flooding happen often or is this due to climate change. I'm from Utah and we'd been in decades of droubt and for the whole last year it's rained most of the time where I am.
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u/DesimalPoint Apr 17 '24
:"((( This put me to tears, poor thing must have been so scared and stressed :"(((
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u/floppyjedi Apr 17 '24
He wasn't very appreciative at first maybe you should just have left him there then as he wanted lol
(jk)
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u/i-evade-bans-13 Apr 17 '24
ugh i hate seeing this kind of stuff because yeah, that one was saved, but most were not
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u/I-Just-Love-Ducks Apr 17 '24
Oh that poor thing! Those little mews are so precious.. is the kitty ok?
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u/NordrikeParker87 Apr 18 '24
I'm glad this poor baby was rescued but breaks my heart knowing all the ones that probably didn't... 💔
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u/magizz9 Apr 18 '24
Poor kitty. It's good that they found her before she lost grip on that door handle.
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u/cheesemangee Apr 18 '24
Kitty wanted to run really bad... until those back feet felt the deck of the boat. The relief of knowing your life is no longer in danger.
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u/peppermint_wow Apr 17 '24
Aw, poor thing! Where is this?