Meows of a kitten stuck in a sewer prompted a rescue mission involving the Alma Police Department, Gratiot County Central Dispatch and nonprofit Dalis To The Rescue.
A four-week-old male kitten was saved Tuesday after the police were called about 3 p.m. for the kitten stuck in a sewer at the corner of Pleasant Avenue and Superior Street, according to the police department’s incident log and from an account on Facebook by Dalis Hitchcock, owner of Dalis to the Rescue.
“The cops went over there because people were trying to coax it out. They couldn’t get it out. It took me a couple tries but finally got it after sticking a live trap (in the sewer),” Hitchcock said.
The kitten was drawn out of the sewer with a trap that had cat food in it and a mechanism where a door dropped down, trapping it.
“He didn’t look like in bad shape. He wasn’t skinny. He wasn’t injured,” she said.
She said the kitten could have gotten separated from its mother and the litter after the mother was relocating the litter, which feral cats often do.
The kitten will be taken care of for approximately another month and he will be neutered after 8 weeks, Hitchcock said.
He will be placed up for adoption after he is neutered.
- Sean Bradley, Morning Sun