South Carolina Cop Rescues a Kitten and Takes Him on as a Partner

Cody Garrett, a 28-year-old police officer from South Carolina, accidentally discovered a kitten during his shift and adopted him. Since then, they have been inseparable.

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Source: buzzfeed

Meet Cody Garrett, 28-year-old police officer from South Carolina. Garrett, as almost everyone who knows him is called, worked the late shift on Saturday nights. While another cop was answering the call, Garrett heard a tiny squeak under a dumpster next door.

Turns out it was a kitten.

The police brought the kitten to the station, but did not know what to do with it. "I don't know why they didn't want to take it, but I offered to take it," Garrett said. His cat, Toothless, took care of four kittens at home. Garrett thought she could take in an abandoned kitten. He took the foundling and put it in a box to take home.

At home, the policeman introduced the kitten to Toothless.

The kitten had obvious digestive problems, so Garrett named him Squirt. The goner is half the size of Toothless's kittens, who are about four weeks old. Toothless quickly adopted this little ball of fur as her own child. And now Garrett has a happy little gang of cats in his house.

Not to mention that he has a new partner in the fight against crime.

A partner who shares Garrett's passion for mustaches and other facial hair.

This is not the first time Garrett has rescued abandoned animals while on duty. Toothless is a cat that he took from the street as a kitten last year. He also recently posted photos of abandoned puppies he found while on patrol.

The night he took Longhorn home, he also found an old blind dachshund roaming the streets. He brought the dog to a local shelter, where the animals are cared for and adopted.

“I run into animals all the time,” the policeman says.