In a bizarre turn of events, Massachusetts police used laundry soap pods to rescue a raccoon trapped in a storm drain. This unconventional rescue highlights the lengths people will go to save our furry friends—and the strange solutions we sometimes find.

Heritage Park’s unlikely soap-slick rescue quickly spread across social media, sparking a spike in “animal rescue hacks” searches. Chief Brian Keenan praised Fernando Rivera Jr.’s ingenuity, calling it “a clean solution for a dirty problem”—and the raccoon lived to scavenge again.