Actually, I do know precisely what I would do in that situation, because it happened to me. I was sleeping, and my cat made a noise of distress and pain, and I shot out of bed and ran to check on her, and she was tangled up in this wire shelving she had been climbing on in a way that was clearly causing her pain because she fucked up and fell into it. So then I helped her out of it and made sure she was okay.

Little did I know, I should have just told her "Stop!" in a really petulant tone of voice and then told people she "clipped herself." That cat actually was clumsy and tended to bump into things (probably related to the reason she managed to fuck up climbing on the shelves in the first place), so I could probably just rely on that and feel fully justified in being mad at her for being a living thing when I was busy with something.

Please teach me more about being a perfectly normal pet owner