The Huntington County Sheriff's Department has a new friend after helping bring a cat to safety Wednesday.

HUNTINGTON COUNTY, Ind. (WTHR) – The Huntington County Sheriff's Department has a new friend after helping bring a cat to safety Wednesday.

The department received a call from someone that was fishing at a spillway off of State Road 5 in Huntington County. The caller spotted a cat that had been stranded on the spillway.

Authorities don't know how the cat got there because there is no way to access the area where the cat was found. They believe it's possible that the cat may have fallen off of State Road 5 or was thrown off.

In a Facebook post from the sheriffs department, they say, "The cat was clearly in distress and retreated to the very top of the spillway area and lodged itself in the metal structure."

There was no way to gain access directly to the cat, but they thought it was worth a shot to take a boat out there and try to coax the cat down.

The Army Corp engineers were able to turn off the water flow and get a boat to take out.