This is the heart-warming moment a woman helps a stray cat free itself after she spotted it wandering around traffic with a snack bag stuck on its head.

Her husband, surnamed Huang, said the two were driving in his car when the helpless puss crossed their way in Langfang, in Hebei Province, northern China, on October 29.

He stopped the car after seeing the hungry white cat with orange specks had gotten its head stuck in an empty bag of snacks and was aimlessly running in circles across the road.

Huang said he then asked his wife to go outside and help free the poor animal before another vehicle accidentally ran it over.

Phone footage filmed by Huang shows the moment his wife ran out onto the street to help the disoriented cat that nearly got run over by a passing truck.

After a brief chase, she managed to sneak up on it and quickly pulled off the plastic bag. Their small act of kindness received wide praise from locals.