You dont hear about it much any more so it goes out of mind, but animals do still get trapped in house hold waste

Today a cat was very lucky we found him
He got his head caught in a dog food tin and if we werent driving past we wouldnt have found him, its dark outside and the cat is black, when we parked the car and hurried back where we had seen him, we didnt want to run encase he heard and got spooked but he was laying in the road, camouflaged completely from veiw, he could have got hit by a car

My boyfriend and i started by trying to calm him, a random by stander who had come out to his car saw us and said he had something that could help, he got pliers to the tin but it didnt help, i managed to get my fingers to his ears and started to gently pull his head free, knowing we couldnt just leave him there like that

I realise he could have gotten hurt, but it felt like a desperate situation, we got him out and after we checked to see if he was hurt (and after he had a small rest), he ran off for freedom, we didnt see any injuries but i woudl have prefered to have taken him home just to make sure in some decent light

And there wasnt any blood in the tin either that we could see

Moral of this story

MAKE SURE YOUR RUBBISH IS SECURE OR AT LEAST IN THE DAMN BIN!