New Yorker Sees Cat Dart Across Subway Tracks as a Train Approaches. Her Next Move Saves Its Life (Exclusive)

Snix, a contented creator and arena performer, was waiting astatine nan Bowery subway position successful Manhattan's Lower East Side 1 nighttime erstwhile she looked up and saw a feline successful nan mediate of nan tracks. Unsure what to do, she whipped retired her telephone and started recording.

With nan train conscionable 1 infinitesimal away, she desperately tried to find personification to help. She past noticed an MTA worker mopping nan level and asked if they would beryllium consenting to thief rescue nan cat.

However, erstwhile they went backmost to nan tracks, nan feline was gone. The worker told Snix that nan feline had been down successful nan subway for weeks.

To raise awareness, Snix posted nan video connected TikTok, attached a viral sound, and went to bed. It went viral overnight, amassing 1.6 cardinal views, 1 of which was nan cat's owner.

When Snix woke up, she saw that nan cat's owner, Diana, had commented connected her post. She identified nan feline arsenic her work animal, Scarlet, who had been missing for astir 5 months.

From there, Snix and Diana began texting backmost and forth. Diana often visited nan subway position successful hopes of rescuing Scarlet and kept a database of each nan times she saw her. However, she was ne'er capable to find a measurement to get down to nan tracks to rescue her pet without compromising her ain safety.

At nan aforesaid time, Snix was posting video updates connected her TikTok account, and hundreds of group suggested she scope retired to 1 of nan reputable animal rescues successful New York City. In nan meantime, nan 2 women besides raised nan rumor pinch nan MTA, but were transferred to nan New York Police Department and past nan New York City Fire Department. However, nary 1 seemed eager to measurement successful and help.

The MTA did not respond to PEOPLE's petition for comment.

"What concerns maine is that location is nary benignant of connection erstwhile it comes to uncovering animals successful nan chaotic successful New York," Snix tells PEOPLE. "A batch of group telephone 311 aliases 511. But there's nary contiguous poster aliases notice. There is thing astir animal information and control." 

Once they sewage successful interaction pinch 1 of nan animal rescue organizations, they informed them astir Scarlet's sightings and submitted a petition to nan MTA to make nan rescue a precocious priority.

Thanks to her TikTok videos, Snix says, "with truthful overmuch consciousness and transparency connected what's going on, group came together and helped."

One night, she says a man messaged her connected Instagram, saying, "I don't cognize thing astir this. I don't cognize thing astir cats. I conscionable saw your video, and I happened to look up, and nan feline was correct successful beforehand of me."

The man texted his friend who lives successful nan area, and they brought a trap and sat successful nan subway position for hours trying to lure Scarlet out. After mounting retired a feline beverage replacer, they were capable to trap her and bring her to nan ASPCA. 

The ASPCA cleared Scarlet, and she and Diana were yet reunited. Diana burst into tears aft getting to clasp her for nan first clip again. She held nan tuxedo tight each nan measurement home.

Diana later told Snix she feels for illustration "God has fixed [her] a 2nd chance," noting that she doesn't cognize what would person happened if nan contented creator hadn't posted that first video.

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With nan week-long effort yet over, Snix shared nan bully news pinch her followers.

"I made my last update, letting everyone cognize and thanking them. I don't deliberation without them all, immoderate of this would person been possible," Snix tells PEOPLE. "That's what's crazy astir societal media; 1 small point tin travel successful and activity together. There's specified a large accent connected community, helping each other." 

Snix was inspired by really thousands of strangers worked together to guarantee that Diana and Scalet were reunited.

"If this business has taught maine anything, it's that arsenic a community, arsenic a state, arsenic New York City, we person nan powerfulness to alteration what we request for our lives," she says.

"Your sound does person power, your stance, your story. Everything you do has a chain, a thread, a nexus to it. So, arsenic agelong arsenic we build connected solidarity and persistence, New York City tin alteration for nan better."