UC Riverside cat rescued...with cooking oil?
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What did it take to extricate a calico cat named Poe from a tight spot in a parking garage at UC Riverside?
Five hours, three animal services workers, eight firefighters, one UCR Extension dean, a team from UC Riverside’s building maintenance crews, two cups of cooking grease and several makeshift tools. And she still managed to escape. The long-haired calico was spotted Friday, Feb. 29 in a parking structure located behind UCR Extension, which offers classes to the community. Sometime over the weekend, she got her tiny head wedged 12 to 15 feet back from the parking garage entrance, between two rocky surfaces. UC Riverside
In the end, electricians used a metal bar as a makeshift hook to pull the cat out of the crevice and into a cage Monday afternoon. Though she escaped once, she has been bathed, vaccinated and is being adopted by a UCR grant writer.
Check out the Press Enterprise for a video of the ordeal.
--Tony Barboza
