A woman has gone viral for rescuing a tiny kitten after she heard a strange noise coming from her car hood.
On July 3, TikTok user @little.miss.emotional posted a video showing her getting out of a car to investigate the source of repetitive meows. When the driver realized the cries were coming from the front of the car, she said: “I’m gonna get you out, OK? I don’t know how to open the hood, but help is coming, buddy.”
The driver enlisted help from strangers, who managed to open the hood and pinpoint the source of the noise: a tiny white and gray kitten.
The video has since gone viral, receiving 12.8 million views and 2 million likes on TikTok. Newsweek has contacted @little.miss.emotional for comment. We could not verify the details of this case.
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“Hi, sweetheart. You’re a kitten,” a man can be heard saying after the hood is opened. He added: “I know. We’ll, look—we’ll figure out how to get you out of there.”
The man carefully lifted the kitten by the scruff of its neck, freeing it from its precarious hiding spot.
The footage then showed the woman cradling the kitten in her lap while sitting in the car.
The TikToker, who has since adopted the cat, attributed the discovery to the “cat distribution system”—an internet theory that suggests cats mysteriously end up where they are most needed, as if delivered by some cosmic force.