Kitten OK after being rescued from underground pipe in Kamloops

KAMLOOPS – An adventurous feline has been rescued after getting trapped in an underground pipe in Kamloops.

Dan Groess, owner of A Groess Underground sewer and drain services, says he responded to a call Monday, July 16, about a black kitten stuck in a conduit that was less than seven centimetres in diameter.

Gross says he used a video inspection camera to get a look at the kitten and it began following his camera back up the pipe.

But the pipe became too steep for the cat to move forward, so Gross says he tied an old T-shirt onto the end of the camera and the co-operative kitten grabbed hold with its claws.

When Groess pulled the camera out, the kitten came with it: hot and thirsty, but otherwise OK.

His seven-year-old daughter, Ariana, was with him at the time of the rescue and wanted to take the prize home, but Gross says the SPCA whisked the kitten away for some care.