This is the heartwarming moment a kitten was rescued after being stuck inside a motorcycle's engine for two days.

The scooter owner was about to leave the house when he heard a cat crying in his garage in Chonburi, eastern Thailand on October 5.

He said he had been hearing the cries for two days, but ignored them because he thought it was just a stray cat that had given birth to kittens.

The man was shocked when he saw the cat inside his engine just before driving away.

He called the animal rescuers for help but the gaps were too small to pull the cat out, so they decided to prise open the scooter's body.

Rescue volunteer Soidao Chantra, 45, volunteered to carefully push the bike to a nearby mechanic to help them remove the parts.

The mechanic team disassembled the scooter's engine to find the cat, estimated to be one-month-old, who kept crying for help.

After almost an hour, the starving kitten was freed.

Soidao and the team said the kitten was lucky it did not die from hunger after days of being trapped.

He said: "Luckily he survived. He was scared inside the scooter. We better find them a new owner soon."

The cat stayed with the rescuers until its owner comes to claim it, or someone asks to adopt it.