Cat Rescued by First Responders From NYC Bridge Now Refuses to Drink Water Without One Paw in the Bowl
A black tuxedo cat was spotted clinging to a ledge on the Manhattan-bound side of the Williamsburg Bridge. After first responders rescued him, the thing his shelter cannot stop talking about is how he drinks his water, with a paw planted right in the bowl.
Meet Willie Bee
Willie Bee is a five-year-old tuxedo cat, and his path into safety started in about the most frightening place a cat can end up. A passerby on the Williamsburg Bridge spotted him out on a narrow ledge, high above a Manhattan street, with nowhere to go.
What happened next was a scramble. The person who found him called 911, 311, and Animal Services, flagged down a traffic officer stationed on Clinton Street, and stopped by a nearby firehouse, pulling the NYPD’s 7th Precinct, the FDNY, and Animal Care Centers of NYC into the effort to get one small cat down.
“We don’t know what he was doing, nor how he got there, but we know he’s ready for a fresh start,” a volunteer with Animal Care Centers of NYC, wrote.
Willie’s Pre-Shelter Life
The photos from that day are shocking to look at. Willie Bee pressed himself against the concrete beneath the bridge railing, a small black-and-white shape stranded over a long drop, apartment towers rising in the distance…