Seminole County deputy saves stray kitten trapped in truck door, then adopts it

WINTER SPRINGS, Fla. — Seminole County Deputy Anthony McDaniel was patrolling a neighborhood in Winter Springs when he got an alert from a frantic resident.

The woman was desperately trying to free a stray kitten that had gotten stuck inside the door panel of a Dodge truck, the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office said on its Facebook page.

Several other deputies and Seminole County Animal Services also responded, but could not free the tiny black kitten.

“At first, nothing seemed to work,” the SCSO Facebook post said. “Every time they tried to move the door, even just a little, the tiny feline would get pinched.”

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That’s when McDaniel had an idea.

He used baby oil to grease up the kitten and very carefully closed the door in hopes that it would free the kitten from the hinge.

“As he (closed the door), the tiny black kitten slipped out of the hinge and was freed from the door,” the SCSO post said.

The woman who reported the trapped kitten took him to the veterinarian and would have adopted him, but her other cats would not accept the newcomer.

“So she announced on Facebook that she was looking for a ‘fur-ever’ home for the kitten,” the sheriff’s office wrote. “Deputy McDaniel saw the post and knew he had to act.

“He and his family adopted the kitten and appropriately named him Dodge.”

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