By Deidre Grieves | Pet360.com

Some people may consider the number of cats in animal shelters a dire situation. But one cat in Sarasota, Fla., believes it is a full-blown emergency.

According to ABC 7 News, a shelter cat named Zeke wound up dialing 911 from an office phone at Cat Depot, a rescue facility in the city. Apparently Zeke just couldn't wait any longer to be rescued by a loving family.

After the dispatcher on the line got no response from the precocious feline, and the emergency worker called the shelter back to make sure everything was okay. The volunteer at the front desk answered the phone and then began to question all humans in the facility to make sure no one had dialed emergency services.

The staff was incredibly puzzled, but shelter workers eventually found Zekes sprawled across a phone in the office of Lynn Rasys, who works as director of communications for the rescue group. Zeke apparently has a habit of walking across laptops and other electronic devices.

Zeke's ploy for attention worked and the cat was adopted by a new family shortly after the story broke on local news channels.

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