Haley Dube is small enough to barely fit into the underground pipe , so she spent about 20 minutes crawling through it to deliver a cat who does n’t even belong to to her .
dwell on what she was about to do was only make her more nervous , so Haley Dube decided she needed to get on with it . She fastened on a headlight and climbed into a narrow , foul - smelling drainage pipe in search of a cat who ’d been miss for six mean solar day .
Dube then live on more or less 20 minute in the pitch - black belowground tube that was barely cock-a-hoop enough for her , all for a cat who was n’t hers . She soon found the piddle - hock Flaik , managing to push him back through the metro so he could reunify with his owner .
Photo: Courtesy of Haley Dube
The Boise , Idaho , organ pipe was so narrow-minded that Dube could n’t acquit him commonly . She repeatedly pushed him forward in the subway before dragging the balance of her body up to play him . Thevideoshowing the rescue ’s finish read just how exhausting that process was . Dube emerge breathe intemperately , her shoulders just able to croak the pipe .
" I could fit , and so that was why I did it , " she tells Daily Paws . " … I ’m not going to just weigh the pro and yardbird of whether that beast should die or not . "
Dube has neaten dogs for the past seven years , and she have her own service , Bark , Bath and Beyond , in Boise . But her honey for animals expand beyond her day business . She and her girl Kenadee also reckon after six rescue wienerwurst , six rescue cats , and two joker . They ’ll even surrender their bathtub to foster kittens .
" We ’re the voice for the voiceless , " Dube say . " Someone ’s pose to support up for them , and I sense like that ’s what God put me on this earth for . "
‘Pretty Gnarly’
In early February , Dube had learn Facebook posts about Flaik going miss . accord toKTVB , the local ardour section heard his miaou from the pipe but could do piddling to justify him , hoping he could make it out on his own . tv camera sent down the pipe could n’t find him either , the TV station report .
Dube ’s Quaker Shae DeBerry later arrive at the storm sewer pipe , seeing if she could lower a trap to catch Flaik . Dube say her to text if she needed any help . The cakehole did n’t work , and Dube capture the text edition to follow over .
" I could n’t trust I was blend in to go down that affair , " she thought as she seem down the manhole to the pipe .
But in she went — enclothe in a sweater and denim . It was dark , freezing , and wet inside the tube , which was perchance 2 feet encompassing . She only had a few inch of headroom once she started her journey , just enough to crawl forward . As if this was n’t terrify enough , she afterwards noticed some spiderwebs . Also , the drain sewer predictably smelled frightening .
" You get laid , that was pretty gnarly , " Dube says , making a massive understatement .
She heard Flaik , though . He was crying more than he was meow , but Dube sustain speaking to him until she arrive at the end of the vacuum tube . She was below another manhole , almost a humble underground elbow room where she was able-bodied to fend — and Flaik was sitting there .
Dube grabbed the isolated cat — she has no approximation how he ended up down there — and she re - entered the pipe , drive him forward . The khat was still , letting Dube do the work before they in conclusion made it out before their amazed interview .
" Everybody was just screaming and outcry and thankful , " she says . " I was just trying to get a breath of fresh airwave again . "
‘I Just Love Them All’
Several daylight later — after both had a chance to get cleaned up — Dube and Flaike meet again under much less trying circumstances . He did n’t acknowledge her at first , but he soon remembered after Dube put her nerve right in front of him for a few nuzzles .
And if she even needs to do anotherSewer Urchinimpression , she ’s quick . If there is a next time — we sure trust not — she’ll at least break goggles . And maybe even a snow wooing .
" It ’s for the animals , " she says . " They do n’t have to be mine . I just love them all . "
