An elderly woman has disappeared after falling into a ravine. Her cat led rescuers to her.

In the United Kingdom, a cat saved its 83-year-old owner after she fell into a ravine by attracting the attention of passers-by with its meows.

Bodmin Police, located in Cornwall, England, shared on Facebook last week that officers were searching for the woman who went missing on Saturday. But she was located by a “member of the public” who spotted the woman’s cat “meowing in the corner of a large cornfield near her home”.

“The elderly woman had fallen approximately 70 feet down a very steep embankment, with incredibly difficult access and uneven terrain,” police said on Facebook.

After the black cat, named Piran, drew attention to her lost owner, rescue workers took her to a field before taking her to hospital by air ambulance.

“Piran the cat saved the day!” Boadmin Police shared.

Authorities later said the woman was in “good spirits” while receiving medical treatment after her fall.

Tamar Longmuir, one of the woman's neighbors, told Sky News that she and others had searched fields in the area looking for the woman 'but there was no sign of her' .

But neighbors soon noticed that Piran continued to meow outside a nearby door.

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“The cat is very attached to her, and he was walking back and forth in the gate and meowing, so I decided to go search the cornfield,” Longmuir said.

She called the woman in the neighborhood but heard no response – at first.

“Just as I was about to turn off the path and start walking through the crops, I heard a very faint response to my call. … I then quickly realized that my neighbor was at the bottom of the 70-foot ravine,” Longmuir told Sky News. .

“She had gone through the barbed wire and was lying in the stream. We think she had been there for hours,” she added.

Longmuir said his neighbors were grateful for Piran's diligence.

“Without the cat waiting at the gate to that field, it could have been hours later that I or anyone else would have checked in there,” she said.

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