Cat Stuck in River, Changhua County (Dacun Train Station)

Life Animal Adoptions & Emergencies
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After leaving Dacun Train Station about an hour ago, I started walking north alongside the small river that runs alongside the tracks, and heard the distressed mews of an impressively-stuck moggy. Given the way raw sewage is handled in Taiwan, I do think the cat may literally be up shit creek without a paddle. I took a couple of pictures (see below) and went back to the tiny train station to use my terrible Chinese to try to explain to the staff that there’s a cat stuck in the river, and I wasn’t sure if someone should be called, although I wasn’t sure who! But although I got the cat’s situation across, my mayo ban-fars were met with their equally-shruggish mayo ban-fars.

It’s sunny today and it won’t be pleasant to be stuck in the sunshine for twelve hours, partially-submerged. Assuming Plans A (the little bastard should just swim for it) and B (I don’t have a gun) are out of the question, is there someone I could email? Some sort of Changhua Water Authority or River Police? The cat was 100m north of the station, next to the west bank.

Or should I just not care? :whistle:

What’s it even standing on?!?!

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Call the closest fire department or ask someone else to. The FD handles this type of thing as part pf their daily duties. Good on you for caring.

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where is the cat on the picture?

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Sorry! If you open the picture in a new tab or window, you’ll see it all. The forum crops embedded pictures so you wouldn’t see the cat part if you’re looking at a resolution lower than 1080P. Partly my fault for lazily using huge pictures. I’ve removed the second picture as it’s basically the first picture, zoomed in.

Thanks for your help, plasmatron. I hope the fire department understood and helps. I’ll check on my way home, and if it’s still there, I’ll have a train station employee give me access to the tracks and I’ll walk along and dangle my shirt down to try to coax it to climb up.

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What happened?

A similar thing happened to me a few years ago. I plan to write about it here. The rescue services were a total joke. Me and a few locals rescued the dog the rescue services had long given up.