SOAKING wet and no doubt feeling worse for wear after a day spent in the sewage system, this tiny kitten is lucky to be alive.

The two-day-old kitten, now named Cain after one of the fireman who rescued him this afternoon, was flushed down the toilet by his little owner Alannah Merleto.

But who could blame Alannah - a gorgeous blonde hair, blue-eyed three-year-old girl who has always had a tendency for flushing things down the toilet, according to her mother Ammie.

“I nearly died this morning when we couldn’t find the kitten, and I asked Alannah where it was, and she said, 'Down the toilet',” Ammie said.

A frantic search throughout the Baulkham Hills home, and a sad whimper coming from pipes under the house, revealed Alannah had in fact flushed the kitten down the loo.

“I didn’t know what else to do, so we rang the fire brigade,” Ammie said.

Eight firemen, a camera on a 30m cord and a lot of precise prodding, the whimpering kitten was freed after almost five hours in the sewage system.

Read more at The Daily Telegraph.