Good Samaritans spend hours rescuing kittens trapped under detective's car bonnet

Ocoee Police Department posted a photo of the lost kittens on Facebook
Ocoee Police Department

Good Samaritans in Florida spent an hour rescuing four kittens after a detective discovered them under the bonnet of her car.

Detective Michelle Grogan, who works for the Ocoee Police Department, was reversing out of her drive way on Monday when she heard meowing.

Speaking to Fox 35 she said: “I got in [the car], didn’t have the radio on, I put it in reverse, backed up a little bit, and I heard it, the ‘meow… meow’. I was like … are you kidding me?”

When she checked the front of her car she found four kittens stowed away under the bonnet of her vehicle.

Detective Michelle Grogan said she recognised the felines from the area
Ocoee Police Department

The shocked detective said she managed to remove two of the kittens easily but had to “call in reinforcements” to help rescue the others.

A fellow officer, local mechanics, a sanitation worker and Animal Control officers spent an hour attempting to remove the helpless felines from where they were lodged between the engine and front bumper.

The Ocoee Police Department shared photos of the lost felines on Facebook, saying that they “were recovered safely from the engine by our City personnel.”

Ms Grogan told Fox 35 that she had seen the animals in the area previously when they had taken “shelter underneath our cars in the drive way.”

She said she quickly recognised them.

“I put it together," she joked. "I’m a detective, you know, detective skills.”

According to reports the kittens are currently in foster care.

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