The RSPCA has revealed the wackiest animal rescues of 2025 - including a fox trapped in a chair and a puffin blown 110 miles inland.

Dramatic pictures show hapless pets and wild animals trapped in bizarre places before being freed by baffled rescuers.

The charity has compiled a list of the oddest rescues of 2025, with one of the weirdest being a kitten trapped in a sewage works.

Stunned staff at the site in Handsworth, Birmingham, alerted the charity after hearing the tiny animal's 'booming meows'.

RSPCA Inspector Boris Lasserres and Cara Gibbon both donned dry suits to rescue the kitten, nicknamed 'Olivia Twist' in October.

Cara said: 'She was trapped down a sewage flow system and we think she must have fallen from quite a height above as there was no other way she could have got herself in there.

'We know she had been in there for at least three days and with no mum around she must have been terrified.'

The kitten was taken to an animal hospital where she made a full recovery and has since been rehomed.

Daisy the dog with RSPCA Inspector Kim Walters (left) and Andy Cook (right) from RSPCA Brent Knoll

A juvenile corn snake that escaped from one of the flats above the premises was returned to its owner

A 'terrified' kitten was rescued from a Birmingham sewer thanks to help from the RSPCA and her cries for help 

A young swan was spotted by a dog walker on the frozen Leeds and Liverpool Canal near Riley Green, Lancashire

A not-so-cunning fox found himself in a spot of bother after he slipped over garden furniture and got his paw stuck between the slats in Mottingham, South East London, in January.

Another young fox cub needed rescuing after getting stuck inside the engine of an Amazon delivery van in Derby.

The distressed female fox was only spotted by the shocked driver after she gnawed through a cable, triggering a dashboard warning light to illuminate.

In November an overweight raccoon was rescued after being spotted in Hayley Fairburn's garden in the Cornish village of Gwennap.

Hayley, 36, said: 'My dog started going crazy and I thought he was seeing a cat.

'I was very shocked to find a raccoon in my garden. I thought I was losing my marbles.'

Meanwhile in London, a business owner was shocked to find a snake slithering around his fish and chip shop in Greenwich in July.

Initially it was feared it was a python but it turned out to be a harmless corn snake which had escaped from a nearby house.

Peanut was described as the "thinnest dog" the RSPCA had seen when she was found abandoned in Biggleswade, in Bedfordshire, on New Year's Day 

RSCPA officers have also saved a 12-year-old horse from a muddy field in Edenbridge, Kent, after he got his legs stuck in his straps in January