"Squeak" the young tom used up all of his nine lives when he became stuck at the top of an electricity pole at his owner's house in Roscobie, near Dunfermline.

For nearly two days the missing moggie remained perched on electrical equipment carrying 11,000 volts - a wrong move and he would have been frazzled.

A team from ScottishPower's premises in Glenrothes (Faults Engineer Douglas Millar and linesmen, Brian Bennie and Colin Harley) answered the call for help from Squeak's owner, Mr Brian Johnstone.

They temporarily disconnected the electricity supply and brought Squeak safely back to earth.

Douglas Millar said that Squeak was without doubt one of the luckiest animals he had encountered during his 30 years working on the electricity system.

"It was miraculous the cat managed to avoid the live equipment that surrounded him as he sat on transformer high up the pole. In ninetynine cases out of a hundred an animal in that position would be killed. I don't know how Squeak managed it".

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