An RSPCA officer was forced into donning her wet suit and wading into a river to save a stranded cat in the middle of the River Ouse in Huntingdon.
The officer was called by a concerned member of the public who had heard the cat crying in the river. Jane Folly of the RSPCA attended the incident in a bid to rescue the cat that was half in the water and half hanging onto the reed bed.
Folly said that the vet examined the animal and found he had a broken pelvis so he would have never survived the night had he been left in the water. She also wanted to thank members of public for staying with her during the rescue.
"It was quite a tricky rescue, because it was dark and in a river, and I couldn’t even see the cat until I was just a few feet away," she continued.
Officers of the RSPCA were recently called to try and save an English Bull Terrier that had managed to get itself stuck in a gate.