Police called - cat tried to fish a mouse out of a jam jar

Published Date: 26 January 2007
Location: Peterborough

Cat gets stuck in a jar

Police were drafted in after a cat tried to fish a mouse out of a jam jar and got its head stuck.

A motorist went to a police station for help after finding the tabby wandering beside a road in Peterborough, with the jar on its head and the mouse millimetres from its nose.

A receptionist and three officers pulled and twisted but were unable to release the cat, police said. Eventually the animal freed itself -- and the mouse -by smashing the jar on the floor of Thorpe Wood police station.

"It was like a scene from Tom and Jerry," said a police spokeswoman.

"I don't think anyone had ever seen anything like it before. The mouse ran off - it's still running around Thorpe Wood police station somewhere."