The RSPCA has rescued an intrepid feline who had been exploring an empty home on the road the place she lives – earlier than the property was boarded up and he or she sadly grew to become caught inside.
Felix, a four-year-old feminine, black and white cat, had been lacking from her Hartlepool home for 10 days earlier than her proprietor, Joanne Keir, heard a well-recognized cry. She adopted the sound to an deserted home three doorways down which was boarded up – and within the high window, she noticed her lacking cat!
She stated: “Felix will need to have been exploring inside the home and so they boarded it up not realising she was inside. She’d been lacking for 10 days at this level and I simply couldn’t consider it after I noticed her. I’d stopped consuming, I used to be so pressured about her.
“I phoned the RSPCA as my last hope as I’d stopped hearing her cries and I was so worried about her. I’d be lost without Felix. It was a hard 10 days but I have her back now, that’s all that matters.”
RSPCA inspector Steph Baines gained access to the derelict property in Furness Street, Hartlepool, on Monday 12 February by way of the police and was capable of set a cat lure with some meals inside to attempt to coax the cat out – however Felix initially had different concepts!
Joanne added: “Felix was just so crafty – she worked out how to nick the meat from the trap and then dash out of the cat catcher in time so the food was gone but there was no sign of Felix. The RSPCA officer, Steph, had the patience of a saint!”
It is believed Felix was dwelling below a spot within the floorboards and is assumed to have been consuming useless pigeons to outlive.
Steph returned to the home to test the lure a number of instances over the following few days even attempting a distinct, extra delicate lure earlier than lastly managing to catch and reunite the intrepid feline along with her anxious proprietor on Thursday 15 February.
Steph stated: “As the home was derelict, there have been a number of hiding locations and we consider she was spending most of her time within the again bed room hiding below the floorboards. After setting a lure and checking it for days we ultimately caught her. Apart from being very hungry and soiled, she was in any other case tremendous and glad to be home.
“As we all strive to create a better world for every animal, happy endings like this really are the best part of the job!”
Her grateful proprietor, Joanne, defined that Felix has settled in very nicely again at home with their three different cats and one canine.
She added: “She rules the roost here. It’s as though she’s never been away. I don’t know what I would have done if it wasn’t for the RSPCA. I honestly don’t think we would have got her back without them.”
Joanne runs the Race for Life yearly for Cancer Research UK in reminiscence of her associate – however this yr she will even be elevating money to assist the RSPCA as a thank-you to the charity for rescuing Felix.
