This fearless feline has at least eight more lives left.<br /><br />A cat that had gotten stuck at the top of a utility pole took a massive leap to avoid his would-be rescuer, viral video shows.<br /><br />Coco, a 3-year-old tabby cat, had escaped from his home in Dildo, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, on Monday and scurried up a hydro pole, where he stayed for two hours, meowing until help from the utility company finally arrived, owner Alice Reid told CTV.<br /><br />Coco is not an outdoor cat, and Reid believes a dog may have chased him up there as he’s never climbed up a pole before, she said.<br /><br />Video Reid posted to Facebook shows a utility worker in a hard hat and uniform scaling the pole toward the crying orange cat.<br /><br />“Coco, he’s going to help you, my love,” Reid can be heard telling the cat as the worker gets closer.<br /><br />But despite coaxing from his owner and the utility worker, the cat could not be purr-persuaded to accept the help.<br /><br />Instead, he chose to dramatically jump to the ground at the last second.<br /><br />“Oh my god!” someone is heard screaming in the video, which has been viewed more than 215,000 times.<br /><br />“I never, in a million years, thought that he was going to jump on his own,” Reid told CTV.<br /><br />Coco took off running after he landed, and Reid initially thought he was injured.<br /><br />Like a cat, though, he appeared unbothered after the fuss.<br /><br />“He came up the step and went on in,” Reid said. “Then he lay down on the floor and started washing himself like, you know, nothing ever happened.”
