Cats Nine Lives

But, Who’s Counting?  Cat’s do seem to have a knack for surviving.

In December of 1964, a Dutch ship named Tjoba sank.  The crew was saved, but the ship’s cat, Jacob at first was believed to have not survived. 

A week later, the ship was raised with a giant crane and winch, and the crew went aboard to claim their belongings.  the captian opened his cabin door, only to find a bedraggled and shivering Jacob, who apparetnly survived in a pocket of trapped air.   That makes me want to cry for the poor thing!

Once, another remarkable cat locked in a Cadillac that was being shipped by freight from the US to Autralia survived 52 days with eating food, by licking engine grease and eating the car instruction manual.  Yuck! 

Along came Chips.  This Liverpool feline was accidentally put in a crate and shipped to Mombassa, Africa.  It survived the four-week voyage apparently because it licked the condensation and the grease off the machinery packed in the crate. 

Then, there was Kelly, who was locked in a cold Brownwood, Texas storeroom for 46 days in 1990 and managed to live to meow about it!

Anotstray cat named Scarlett made New York newsin  March of 1996. Scarlett risked its own life 5 times by repeatedly walking into a burning abandoned garage to save its five kittens.  Almost singed to death, the cat was given the Scarlett bvy the press because it was so badly burned that its oozing skin was explosed.  Although Scarlett’s eyes looked severely damaged, a Long Island veterinarian felt that the cat’s corneas were in sufficient shape to recover sight. 

Now that’s love.

-Sassy’s Mom, the cat’s Meow!