Animals

Watch: Officer rescues kitten from middle of Florida highway

Cars were passing within feet of the kitten before it was rescued.

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A kitten was recently rescued from the middle of a busy highway by a Florida police officer, with the help of a passing truck driver.

Officer Thomas Stanfield of the Alachua Police Department was on patrol when he noticed the kitten in the middle of the roadway.

Stanfield got an assist from a truck driver who helped block traffic.

The rescue was caught by the officerโ€™s bodycam.

"I just found a baby kitten in the middle of 441," Stanfield reported to his fellow officers.

The officerโ€™s bodycam shows the kitten riding away with the officer.

The kitten was not hurt and has found a home with one of the department's dispatchers.

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