The Japanese metropolis of Fukuyama is on excessive alert after a cat fell right into a vat of hazardous chemical compounds earlier than scampering off into the evening. Residents have been warned to maintain their distance ought to they arrive throughout the unlucky feline, which is roofed within the extremely acidic carcinogen hexavalent chromium.
According to the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, the cat fell right into a tank containing the poisonous substance at a metallic plating manufacturing unit within the metropolis. On Monday morning, a manufacturing unit employee discovered a set of yellow pawprints, believed to belong to the cat, close to the tank. In safety digital camera footage, a cat could be seen escaping the manufacturing unit at round 9.30 pm the earlier night, although its present whereabouts are unknown.
There’s no footage of the cat falling into the vat, which was reportedly 3 meters (10 toes) deep and lined by a sheet that appeared to have been turned over.
Hexavalent chromium is extraordinarily harmful if touched or inhaled. It could cause pores and skin irritation and respiratory issues, in addition to an entire host of different opposed well being results, together with kidney and liver harm, lung most cancers, and even demise.
We actually hope the cat had all of its 9 lives when it took the plunge.
The metropolis’s Environmental Conservation Division has mentioned that it might be lifeless, however suggested that folks keep away from any “cat that seems abnormal” and make contact with the town or police if they arrive throughout one.
In one other, far much less tragic, story of an ill-fated animal’s run-in with a vat of yellowy liquid, a seagull fell into a bathtub of curry and turned orange again in 2016. Thankfully, “Gullfrezi” made it out unhurt, although the identical in all probability can’t be mentioned of Fukuyama’s feline pal.
