Incident in Erfurt: Cat freed from car in laborious rescue operation. Because neither the police nor the fire department could get the animal out of its hiding place, the car had to be dismantled.

Now the cat is waiting to be reunited with his owners. Erfurt police officers were out on an animal mission a second time at the weekend: They kept two runaway ponies under control near a motorway until the owner put them back in the paddock had driven. The cat should stay there until its owner is found.