Cats often get a bad rap for being loners, but one lucky kitty trapped under rubble in the Turkish quakes, will not allow himself to be parted from his rescuer.
When the devastating earthquakes hit Gaziantep in Turkey, they struck a country where cats are loved harder than perhaps any other.
A viral post on social media saw a Turkish firefighter named Ali Cakas with a dust-covered cat perched on his shoulder. Cakas found the animal buried in the rubble where it had been for ten days.
It refused to leave his side as he continued working with his fire department to save people and animals.
ABC news did a little digging around on social media and found out that Cakas, pictured in the video wearing a bike helmet and snowboarding goggles for protection, is actually a world-class mountain biker, and works as a coach for the Turkish national mountain biking team.
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Cakas has since taken the cat home and adopted him. He’s named it “Enkas,” which means “rubble” in Turkish, and Rubble the cat has now become the official mascot of Cakas’ fire department.
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