A cat lingering on the subway tracks near the Nostrand Avenue A/C station in Brooklyn caused adorable delays for commuters shortly before 7 a.m. this morning. Straphanger Phil Bouska tells us that his C train was stuck at the station for "about 20 minutes because, as the conductor repeatedly announced, an A train in front of us is moving very slowly behind a cat on the tracks.'" In an email, a bemused Bouska elaborates:

With each announcement, his attempted humor and people's frustrations grew. At one point he announced that "because the cat is moving very slow, the A train is moving very slow." The passengers went from amused to frustrated over the course of about 20 min. I, for one, had to cancel my classes this morning because of the delay, so presumably, this cat made my students' day.

An MTA spokesman confirms that "a cat was on the tracks and removed." As a train operator worked to corral the kitty, northbound C trains ran express from Utica to Hoyt "for about 45 minutes," according to the MTA. (The spokesman could not say where the cat was removed to.)

Shout out to the cat that was chilling on the local train tracks and holding up the train for damn near an hour. — Steph B-More™ (@StephBMore) October 2, 2014

Doesn't that silly kitty know it's supposed to stay on the F/E Line?

The last time Cats on the Tracks made the news was last year, when a pair of adorable kittens frolicking on the train tracks brought subway service to standstill in Brooklyn for several hours as workers tried to rescue them. The cats became a heated topic of debate between Republican mayoral candidates John Catsimatidis and Joe Lhota, whose spokesman said subway service should not have been stalled to spare the cats' lives. Had Lhota won the election, this morning's subway cat story would have had a much unhappier ending. Thanks, de Blasio!