JURUPA VALLEY, Calif. (KNX) — An officer with the Department of Animal Services got a little creative when it came to rescuing a feline in distress in Jurupa Valley.
It started when on Tuesday, Amaya Jones heard cat sounds outside her house.
"It was like, in the middle of the night and I hear some meowing and I thought (the cats) were just being loud outside so I went to bed," Amaya explained in a YouTube video posted by Riverside County Animals. "The next morning, Mom was like, 'One of the cats is inside the house' and I was like, "No, they're not. They're just being loud outside.'"
It was then Amaya and her mom discovered a kitten was caught in the chimney.
Officer Chris Peck responded to call of a kitten stuck in a chimney, according to City News Service.
When it came to getting the kitten out, Peck didn’t have anything until he was given old bedsheets by the family. That’s when the officer made a rope and lowered it down the chimney.
"We had to cut and tie a sheet and tie it in the knots and stick it down (the chimney) so she could climb up herself," Jones recalled.
Peck's tactics proved to be right as the resident's Ring security camera showed the kitten was found wandering in the backyard in the middle of the night, having escaped the chimney.
Officials said they did have a backup plan in case the rope tactic didn’t work. They said they would have made a hole in the wall to grab the kitten.
As for how the kitten got into the chimney, that's unclear at this time.
City News Service contributed to this story.
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