A senior citizen lowered her seven-year-old grandson by rope from the fourth-floor to the second-floor window ledge rope to rescue her cat in southern China.

In the shocking video, filmed in the city of Nanchong in Sichuan Province on January 5, a boy was tied to a rope and hanging over the second-floor window ledge in the dangerous rescue operation.

After he put the cat into a bag, his grandmother and other family members pulled him up and took him back into the fourth-floor flat.

After the video being uploaded on Chinese social media, netizens blamed the grandmother for ignoring her grandson's safety.

The grandmother was reportedly felt guilty and admitted her fault after seeing the video.

Since there was no one in second-floor and third-floor flat, the pensioner came up with the idea to rescue the stray cat she adopted.

She explained: "My son is too heavy, so we decided to let our grandson do it. As he is only around 20 kilograms, there was no problem. I know I was wrong, I would not dare to do it again."

5日下午，四川南充蓬安县一位老人将7岁外孙从5楼吊下3楼，救一只被困在遮雨板上的小猫，整个过程大约持续了10分钟。万幸的是人和猫，都平安。有人指责老人为了救一只猫，置小男孩的安全于不顾。6日晚，外婆在看过拍摄的视频后，感到后怕，颇为自责地说：“不是说为了救猫，我就不顾我孙子的死活，我当时心里是有把握才那样做的……我知道错了，以后再也不敢那样做了。