Transit riders work together to rescue scared cat from underneath TTC streetcar
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A group of TTC riders banded together to rescue a woman's cat from underneath a streetcar in downtown Toronto, saving one of its nine lives.
A group of TTC riders banded together to rescue a woman's cat from underneath a streetcar in downtown Toronto, saving one of its nine lives.
Pragti Kapoor was on her way home from work at around 4 p.m. last Friday, on-board the 504 King Street streetcar heading towards Spadina, when she heard a woman desperately screaming for the tram to stop.
When Kapoor approached the door and looked over at the woman, "almost hyperventilating" as she was hunched over underneath the train, she asked her what was going on.
"'My cat, it's my cat. She ran, she's under the TTC.' And then I screamed to tell the driver, 'There's a cat under the streetcar,'" Kapoor told CTV News Toronto in an interview.
In a video obtained by CTV News Toronto, what appears to be an orange and white cat can be seen stuck underneath the streetcar, nestled next to one of the vehicle's wheels. Other passengers disembarked the TTC streetcar, Kapoor said, crouching below to see what was going on.
The cat refused to budge, Kapoor said. The streetcar driver came out with a broom at one point, she said, but the broom was not long enough to reach the frightened feline. According to Kapoor, food like a plate of hot chicken, Oreos, cat food, and even shawarma were offered to the cat in an effort to lure her out, but nothing was tempting enough to draw her out.
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A group of TTC riders banded together to rescue a woman's cat from underneath a streetcar in downtown Toronto, saving one of its nine lives.
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