It might be challenging to catch the criminals who pose the least threat.
In Auckland, New Zealand, police received a complaint last week claiming that a “little orange and white ball of fluff” was making every effort to cause accidents on the Southwestern Motorway.
A little cat snuggled up against a concrete wall was the source of the disturbance, which the police quickly discovered when arriving on the scene.
“Unfortunately she was spooked by the approaching officer and quickly bolted across three lanes of live traffic,” police said on Facebook. “She narrowly avoided the worst.”
Now trapped on a small strip in the center of the freeway, the police had no choice but to temporarily close the entire highway down. This extra precaution proved to be the right decision, and they were able to wrangle the kitten and bring her to safety soon after.
“In all, it took a little over a half an hour for them to get her,” Shelley Nahr, media coordinator for the department, told The Dodo.
But she wasn’t done making mischief like any lively cat would.
One of the officers helped her into his police car and made a brief call before starting to drive off. The kitten wasn’t in sight at that point, he realized.
Police said that the man “looked everywhere but found nothing.” Before he detected the tiniest meow emanating from the dashboard.
Somehow, the kitten had squeezed herself up into the dashboard — so off they went to a local mechanic to rescue her for the second time in one day.
After removing the entire dash from the patrol car, mechanics found the kitten just where they had expected: tucked around a heating fan.
After the whole event, the small cat quickly found herself a forever home—her third lucky break for the week. Glenda, the dispatcher who answered the initial 911 call about the cat, believed the kitten would be a wonderful addition to her family.
She now resides with her three offspring and her new owner, according to Nahr. They gave Winky the name Winky since the elf’s closest buddy by that name in the “Harry Potter” books because they already had a bulldog called Dobby.
Although Winky had fleas and cat flu when she first came since she was a stray, she is currently responding well to medication and is anticipated to make a full recovery.
Dobby and Winky are becoming into the closest of friends, as was intended.
