Cat that travelled hundreds of miles rescued by window cleaner

Window cleaners came to the rescue of a cat which travelled more than 300 miles only to end up stuck on a building ledge .

A passerby spotted the frightened feline sitting motionless on a ledge at one of the entrances of the Plymouth University Roland Levinsky building on Monday.

They alerted their friend Jo Bobbie, 30, who told PlymouthLive that she immediately ‘went into cat-mum mode’ and attended the scene.

She called the RSPCA but they were unable to send anyone to help until 24 hours had elapsed.

But then a hero came along – Aaron Griffiths, owner of A.G’s Reach and Wash Window Cleaning Services, who owns a large selection of tall ladders.

Aaron said: ‘I got this random phone call asking if I would mind coming into the city to rescue a cat. They said they’d pay me, but I didn’t want to take money.

‘I must admit, it baffled me how it got there. The folks who turned up were lovely, bless them, saying I was like a hero, but I love pets.

‘It was sat right on the end of the ledge and wouldn’t move. People had tried using Dreamies but it wouldn’t budge.

‘I’ve had a lot of strange phone calls being a window cleaner, but that’s definitely the strangest call I’ve ever had.’

After vats examined the cat, they found out it had travelled all the way from Ipswich.

Jo Bobbie, who later posted the entire incident on on the Plymouth Pet Scanners Facebook page which helps reunite missing pets with their owners, said: ‘A lady took it to the vets and they said to her “You’re not going to believe it – it’s from Ipswich”.

‘It turns out the parents of a student had come down to visit their daughter and this cat must have stowed away in their car and then somehow got out.

‘It’s an indoor cat so the poor thing must have been absolutely terrified, which is why it was frozen to the ledge and wouldn’t move. Thankfully, the owners collected it later the same day, so it all ended well.’

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