Kittens were rescued from precarious situations in two separate cases on Saturday, with one case coming from the bulge of a man’s pants (ew) and one case coming 12 floors high from the corridor ledge of an HDB flat in Marine Terrace.
Kittens rescued from smuggler’s bulge
Four live kittens were rescued just two days after the New Year after a 45-year-old man was caught at Tuas Checkpoint trying to hide the cats in his pants.
The impawsible case was revealed by both the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) and the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) on their Facebook pages on Saturday.
According to ICA’s Facebook page, officers were prompted to conduct further checks on the male Singaporean after they heard meows coming out from the man’s suspiciously large, ehem ehem, bulge. (You know, his junk in the front.)
The kittens are now placed under the care of AVA while they investigate the case, said an AVA spokesperson on their Facebook page.
“This method of concealment is a cause for concern as similar methods may be used by people with ill intent to smuggle security items into Singapore,” said the ICA on Facebook.
Kitten rescued from 12th-floor ledge
Another kitten was rescued from the corridor ledge on the 12th floor of a public housing flat in Marine Terrace by a cat guardian who takes care of over 30 cats in the area.
In a video posted by Susan Lee on her Facebook page on Saturday, cat caregiver Grace Tan is seen in the video carefully passing down a noose made of raffia string to the kitten perched on the narrow ledge.
As she deftly places the noose over the cat’s body, another video shows her lifting the cat and catching it midway as it gets pulled up the wall and into the apartment next to the ledge.
The kitten in question was reported missing on the Cats of Marine Terrace Facebook page, which is used as a platform to broadcast Tan’s initiative in taking care of the Marine Terrace cats.
The cat was found at the same block where it went missing and Tan was alerted to help in the case by the owner’s mum, said a spokesperson from the Cats of Marine Terrace Facebook page to Coconuts Singapore.
As there was a lack of equipment and time was not on their side, Tan came up with the raffia noose idea, added the spokesperson.
According to the Cats of Marine Terrace Facebook page, Tan cares for over 30 community cats in the area, sometimes tending to cases of irresponsible pet owners abandoning their unsterilized cats in the estate despite her low income.
The page is currently appealing for donations to fund the feeding, sterilization and medical expenses she has incurred in the caring of the cats of Marine Terrace. Interested parties may send the Facebook page a message here.
