ROCKLAND — The Rockland Police Department posted on its Facebook page May 29, that two officers rescued a kitten that had crawled inside a sewer pipe.

“A woman heard a cat crying while gassing up at a local store,” according to the department. “Officers Jordan Jandreau and Jeff Aeschlimann responded, and found that the cat was so far in a sewer pipe that it was actually in the crawlspace of a house.”

The home owner let the officers into the home's crawl space to “commence Operation Kitty Rescue.”

“A determination had to be made as to who would crawl through to the sewer pipe,” police said. “We normally solve this using a tried and true method of rock, paper, scissors.”

“However, logic dictated that agility would be key in such a cramped space.”

The department said that “Officer Aeschlimann is around 6 feet 2 inches tall and 200 plus pounds. Officer Jandreau is, well, not 6 feet 2 inches tall and 200 plus pounds.”

“Plus, Officer Jandreau is a sergeant in the Army National Guard, and low crawling through grimy spots is his jam,” they added.

Officer Jandreau went in, unscrewed some pipes and was able to grab the kitten just before it fell further into the pipe.

The woman who called it in volunteered to take the very bewildered kitten for the night and then take it to the vet.

“It's not just firefighters that save kittens,” police said in the release.