It might be challenging to capture the suspects 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 like any rambunctious kitten would, she wasn’t finished causing trouble.
After one officer put her into his patrol car, he made a quick phone call before pulling away. That’s when he noticed the kitten wasn’t anywhere in sight.
“He searched high and low and found nothing,” police said. “Until he heard the faintest meow coming 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.
While Winky arrived with fleas and cat flu from her former life as a stray, she is doing well on antibiotics and is expected to make a full recovery.
And, just as intended, Dobby and Winky are becoming the best of friends.
