TTC riders rescue cat from underneath streetcar [Video]

A group of TTC riders banded together to rescue a woman’s cat from underneath a streetcar in downtown Toronto, saving one of its nine lives.

Pragti Kapoor was on her way home from work at around 4 p.m. last Friday, on-board the 504 King Street streetcar heading towards Spadina, when she heard a woman desperately screaming for the tram to stop.

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When Kapoor approached the door and looked over at the woman, “almost hyperventilating” as she was hunched over underneath the train, she asked her what was going on.

“‘My cat, it’s my cat. She ran, she’s under the TTC.’ And then I screamed to tell the driver, ‘There’s a cat under the streetcar,'” Kapoor told CTV News Toronto in an interview.

In a video obtained by CTV News Toronto, what appears to be an orange and white cat can be seen stuck underneath the streetcar, nestled next to one …