New Canaan Police and Fire Team Up To Rescue ‘Roscoe’ the Cat, Reunite Him with Local Family

New Canaan’s emergency responders teamed up Sunday to rescue a cat and return him to his home.

At about 8:22 a.m. on March 3, New Canaan Police Officer Kelly Coughlin was called to the lobby of the department’s temporary headquarters downtown on a report of a found cat, according to an incident report obtained by NewCanaanite.com through a public records request.

Roscoe the cat has been reunited with his family. Photo published with the permission of its (the photo’s) owner

There, Coughlin learned that town resident Gail Hart turned in an orange cat that had become stuck up a tree in the area of Mariomi Road near Hickok Road, according to the report. Members of the New Canaan Fire Department rescued the animal, which Hart thought might be hers since she’s missing an orange cat, the report said.

But it wasn’t—the rescued cat was “long, bigger than average and looked well taken care of,” Coughlin said in the report.

“There was no collar on the cat,” which Coughlin then brought to the animal shelter at the Lakeview Avenue Transfer Station, she said. Asked for advice, Animal Control Officer Sean Godejohn told Coughlin to leave the cat some food and water.

A few hours later, Coughlin said, a Fox Run Road man and his family came to police headquarters inquiring about their missing orange cat.

“They showed me photos and advised me the cat is not microchipped,” the incident report said. “I checked the cat for a microchip and it did not have one. The photos they showed me matched the appearance of the impounded cat.”

They all went to the shelter to retrieve the cat whose name is Roscoe “and they took him home,” Coughlin said in the report.