Kansas linemen save mom bobcat and kitten during ice storm

NORTON, Kan. (KAKE) - A lineman and his crew were in for a surprise on Sunday, aside from the severe winter weather that hit the state.

JaLynn Colip Urban says her husband, Dominic Urban, works as a lineman in Norton and was faced with an unusual challenge on Sunday.

Urban, working alongside Eric Hartwell, were working on restoring power to Kansans impacted by the weekend's winter storm, when the two were given a new task: Two bobcats needed rescuing from a nearby power pole, and they were frozen stuck.

The high temperature in Norton on Sunday was a freezing 16 degrees, with a wind chill of -5°F.
"I couldn’t knock them off," Urban said. "She (the mother) was froze down to the top of the pole so I had to make a snare out of a piece of pipe and some rope hold her down while I beat the ice loose that lowered her down to the ground. I had to do the same with the kitten."

The whole rescue took about two hours.
Urban said it took longer to avert the power so that they didn’t "fry and everyone lose electricity," than the actual rescue took.
Both mom and kitten were lowered safely, Urban told us.

"The mom was rescued first and ran off, the kitten was rescued right afterwards and ran in the same direction as the mom."


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"You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals."

Thanks for sharing that.

A good deed Indeed!
Hope the cats were given food too.

Thank you for sharing a positive story, in a time when there is so much bad in this world.

Awesome story, thanks.

Were any Humans harmed in the 2 hour delay restoring power?

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Originally posted by chbibc:
"You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals."

Thanks for sharing that.

“A man’s treatment of a dog is no indication of the man’s nature, but his treatment of a cat is. It is the crucial test. None but the humane treat a cat well.”
-- Mark Twain, 1902
-- P229DAK’s tag line

Other than my domestic friends, I treat my animals with salt, pepper, garlic, ect, grilled to perfection.
PETA
people eating tasty animals.

"Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. - Notebook, 1894 "

I love the story and glad everything turned out good but I also know that bobcats, when cornered, can be a force to be reckoned with.

Not this time.