A pet cat used up one of its nine lives after he was saved from being strangled by a python – and received with CPR before scampering away.

The black moggy named ‘Porsche’ was heard crying for help as the 10ft-long reptile coiled around him crushing his body in Samut Prakan, central Thailand, on Tuesday (June 15). A horrified worker called his colleagues for help and several of them rushed to the patch of wasteland behind a building site shortly after sunrise.

They found the lifeless four-year-old feline under a bush with the deadly python wrapped around and suffocating him in preparation for swallowing whole.