For hours and hours, the AMP rescue team, firemen, and citizens were involved in a a sticky rescue mission. The operation seemed simple—a kitten, with altitude sickness, climbed on the roof of a very tall house in the historical center of Brasov. The action would fit smoothly in an American movie, but in the Romanian reality “the victim” ran away from the rescuers. For an entire afternoon the rescuers were “catting around” before bringing the cat down to… earth. See the video HERE
“Kitty, kitty” didn’t work
Nobody knows how the kitten, only few months old, ended up perched 10 meters above the pavement on the roof of this house. The fact is that it was unable to come down. The house’s tenants tried in vain to lure the animal with “kitty, kitty” at all corners of the house, but the kitten seemed as hopeless as Humpty Dumpty on the wall, waiting to be rescued by the king’s men. The old house raised its tile-hat so high that no ladder from the neighborhood could reach it. The residents didn’t give up and instead called the AMP office. We don’t have such a super ladder, either, so we turned to the goodwill of firemen. A special vehicle for fire-fighting was moved to the site. When the ladder was installed and the rescuers were just one step away from reaching the young feline, the victim escaped defiantly into the attic of the house. Thus the neighbors found out how the kitten was “teleported” onto the roof. The rescuers weren’t able to catch the kitten there, either, so Ciprian David, the veterinary assistant who runs AMP’s emergency program, stuck his arms in vain through the attic of the building. “We didn’t manage to catch it then, so after everyone left, I returned to the place with a little cage—a trap that I was about to install. I was hoping that the kitten would get inside until the next morning, so that we could rescue it. When I returned, the cat was back on the roof and was sitting right on the edge of it. I stretched out a window to catch it. I did, fortunately, succeed in rescuing it, and everyone was relieved,” says the AMP assistant.
