'It's Drowning': Man Saves Feral Kitten After Wife Spots It Being Carried Away by Flood

Skip and Nancy Campbell live in Sacramento, California, and their house backs up to Chicken Ranch Slough, which has a stream.

Over the years, they’ve helped catch feral cats that frequent the area, even adopting some themselves. But on Oct. 24, they met their next furry addition without even knowing it.

On that day, 5.4 inches of rain fell — the highest recorded rainfall since 1880, according to Newsweek. The creek turned into a wide river, and when the Campbells went through their back gate to walk through the park, Nancy spotted a tiny head bobbing in the water.

Thankfully her husband, Skip, knew the lay of the land.

“I kinda know the terrain. It’s not safe to go out in the water like that, but for me, I knew right where it was flat, and so it wasn’t as much of a risk,” Skip told KCRA-TV.

Their home had been in his family since 1966, so he was very familiar with the area and was able to safely wade out into the water to try to catch the kitten as it was swept away.

“There’s a 🐈Cat!” Nancy says in the video she recorded. “It’s drowning!”