Kevin Atkins’ deft handling of a vacuum truck suction hose has earned the Roto-Rooter of Columbus, Ohio, excavator and pumper praise from feline fanciers across the country.Responding to an emergency call of a cat stuck down a pipe at a Ziebart auto repair shop June 18, Atkins sized up the situation and used his pump operator skills to rescue the frightened kitten meowing six feet down a 4-inch abandoned electrical conduit. When Atkins arrived at the Ziebart shop, the kitten had been trapped in the pipe for several days and humane officers called to the scene didn’t know how to
