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We caught Grumpy Old Cat watching this rescue video and muttering to himself, so we asked what he was thinking. "These kittens today are so dumb! I never got stuck in a pipe when I was his age. No, sir! What does he think he is, a ferret?" Grumpy Old Cat, that's not really fair. Your kind is known for getting caught in sticky situations. Haven't you ever heard the phrase "curiosity killed the cat"? "Aw, baloney! That curiosity stuff is just a buncha politically-correct garbage that the bleeding hearts came up with so stupid cats wouldn't get their feelings hurt. A cat can use his brain to avoid getting stuck in pipes! That's what I do." Well Grumpy Old Cat, what about the firefighters? ...

Spikey, the dog who captured national headlines when he was airlifted from a Los Angeles river in a daring helicopter rescue is finally home. The 4-year-old German-shepherd mix was in quarantine for several days before being released and reunited with his owners, the Los Angeles Times reported. On Friday, Jan. 22, viewers were glued to their television screens when news stations broadcast live coverage of a dog being rescued by the Los Angeles Fire Department from a surging river. The video from Fox 11 News shows firefighter Joe St. Georges, 50, dropping from a helicopter into the river, grabbing the struggling dog and airlifting him to safety -- but not before dangling high above the ...

House fires are dangerous enough for people, but they too frequently prove fatal for our four-legged friends. Over 40,000 pets die of smoke asphyxiation each year. Good news, then, that neighborhood fire departments, like Martinez-Columbia Fire Rescue in Augusta, Ga., are acquiring smoke inhalation masks for pet use in emergency rescues. "The majority of dogs and other animals that die in house fires are due to smoke inhalation and this will be able to take care of that problem -- might be able to save a lot more animals by having these devices available to us," Captain Robert Rosier with Martinez-Columbia Fire Rescue told NBC Augusta. The smoke mask that the Martinez-Columbia fire ...

billbennettphoto.com We've all heard of firefighters rescuing cats from trees, but from drainage grates? According to the New York Post, a lucky kitten was saved from a drain in a Long Island parking lot after a passerby heard her crying and called a Humane Society Volunteer, who then contacted the Oceanside Fire Department's ladder company. Firefighter Matt Martin, who carried the cat out of the storm drain, told Paw Nation that he was "confident we would get the cat out." He described the rescue: "One member [of the company] went down one side and was trying to coax the cat out, but the cat was just sitting there in the middle of the pipe, and on the other side was another pipe ...