Family adopts kitten after rescuing it from roadside drain
Zhou Meirong said the kitten was uninjured after she lifted it through a gap in a metal grate in Xinjiang, China.
A kitten trapped in a roadside drain in Xinjiang, China, was rescued by a passer-by whose family then decided to adopt it.
Zhou Meirong was walking around the neighbourhood with her family when they heard a faint meow coming from beneath a drain grate.
Footage from 2 October shows Zhou crouching beside the heavy metal grate, holding a cable looped around the kitten’s leg as the animal clings to the edge of the opening. She then puts on a glove and gently lifts it through a gap in the grate.
Once freed, the kitten stands safely on the ground while the family’s dog approaches and sniffs it.
Zhou said the kitten was uninjured and that the family had decided to adopt it.