A Virginia police officer is getting a very paws-itive response from the community for rescuing a kitten during a traffic stop.

According to a social media post by the Henrico Police Department, Officer McGuire made a routine traffic stop along Interstate 64, but, during the course of that stop, noticed a frightened kitten in the median.

McGuire left his patrol car, tracked down the kitten in the grassy median, and – without startling it into the interstate traffic – recovered the adorable kitten, which was hiding under a pile of straw.

In the bodycam video released by the department, you can then hear McGuire letting the driver he pulled over know that she's good to go with a warning to slow down in the future, before returning to his quad car and swaddling the kitten in a towel.

He then swaddled it in a towel from the trunk of the squad car and called in to let dispatch know he had "captured the kitten" before taking it to animal control.

You can watch the dashcam video below: