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Cat Uses Up 8 of 9 Lives

It's a sorry story, but at least there's a good ending. From the Washington Times:

GLASGOW, Scotland, Jun. 25 (UPI) -- A cat survived for almost two months trapped under a garden deck in Scotland.

John and Anne McMillan of Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, heard Bubbles meowing eight weeks after they unknowingly built a deck over her. The cat belongs to their next-door neighbor, 7-year-old Emma Deane, who had been searching for Bubbles and had almost given up hope.

Sara Deane, Emma's mother, told the Daily Record, "The vet said it was a miracle and we can't think of any other way to describe this."

Bubbles was within a few hours of death when she was rescued, Deane added. The vet believes the cat survived by eating insects.

Bubbles was starving, dirty, thin and had sore legs, but Emma says she will give her "everything she needs to get better."

Sara Deane speculated the McMillans did not hear the cat because of hearing problems.

First of all, I think their neighbors should take up a collection to buy them hearing-aids. Second, didn't they go looking and searching for their cat when it had been missing all that time? Oh well, at least this poor kitty was found (apparently JUST in the nick-of-time) and I hope the McMillans try a little harder to preserve the one remaining life of Bubbles.

Posted by Jeff Soyer at June 27, 2004 12:01 PM