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Hiker Missing for a Month Found in New Mexico with her Cat

March 9, 2012 By 1 Comment

In New Mexico a woman who had been missing for nearly month in a national forest has been found in a sleeping bag with her cat by her side!

Authorities said 41-year-old Margaret Page was found Wednesday in Gila National Forest around a mile up the Railroad Canyon Trail, where she had gone hiking with her cat around Feb. 10. She was found malnourished and emaciated but well-hydrated. It is believed she had probably stayed alive by drinking water from a nearby creek and fed her cat, Miya, with cat food she had packed.

Happy you are safe Margaret and it is so cool you kept your kitty safe and alive!

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Missing Cat Found by Dog!

February 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Another hero story but this time it’s not a human it’s a dog!

Sam, a two year-old British Shorthair went missing about three weeks ago from his home (Sam lives in Australia!)

His owner, 80-year-old widower Val Arnold almost lost hope when Sam was discovered trapped in a drain thanks to  Buddy… an 18 month-old groodle (a golden retriever-poodle cross) who was just out on his daily walk.

Mr. Arnold, his daughter Kelly and son in law Matt had searched every day and night for a week, even knocking on doors. “I just thought that I lost him,” Mr Arnold said. “I’d given up and was feeling pretty down about it. He meant a lot to me because it is three years since I lost my wife, Janet and Sam has been good company for me.”

Then one morning Evan Roberts, a neightbor, took his dog Buddy on his daily walk.

“Every time we passed a particular storm water drain, Buddy would try and drag me back,” Mr Roberts said.

“I’d drag him away and then on Saturday morning he was so insistent, I thought there was something in there. I got on my hands and knees and looked in and there was Sam staring up at me. I went and told Val that we had found his cat… We went back and tried to remove the grate and get him out but it was far too heavy.”

The Mortdale Fire Brigade came and removed the grate and rescued little Sam.

Thanks Buddy and thanks to you too Mr. Roberts and the Mortdale Fire Brigade!

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Cat Survives Being Stuck Underground for Nearly a Week!

February 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment

In Dallas, Texas an 8 month old cat named Rewind was rescued this week after being stuck in a ventilation tunnel that is buried 60 feet below street level for almost a week.

A maintenance worker heard the animal while working and called for help.

Officer Shannon Mcleod climbed a series of ladders and crawled through a cramped underground tunnel where she found Rewind clinging to the side of a wall.

All the movement and flashlights scared the kitty and she jumped nearly 40 feet to the bottom of the ventilation shaft. Officer Amy Carlile went down into the pit to rescue her. She then stayed with Rewind until Dallas firefighters pulled everyone to safety.

Rewind is recovering at the Dallas Animal Hospital… so if you know anyone in the area this little kitty is going to need a new home! For more info on how to adopt him go HERE.

A lot of heroes in this story!

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Woman Adopts Cat Found Frozen to Sewer Cover in Sioux City

February 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Little Oliver kitty was found two weeks ago near Sioux City, Iowa with his back leg frozen to a metal sewer cover. His leg had to be amputated and the story hit the local news. Gail Bancroft lives in Maryland but was originally from Iowa and when she heard about the incident she decided to adopt little Oliver. It turns out Gail has a habit of adopting cats in need… she also has a cat that survived breast cancer and a cat that survived having acid thrown at it.

Thanks Gail! A true hero.

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Caribbean Cat Cafes…!

February 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Remember this post about Japan’s awesome cat cafés? Well it turns out there are also some pretty cool cat cafés of another kind on the Caribbean Island of St. Thomas. In Japan you go to hang out with the kitties but on St. Thomas they’ve built the wild and stray cats their OWN little huts with food and water.

The residents of St. Thomas recognize that it was people in the first place that created the feral cat “problem” so it is people that should work to solve it.

Dellia Holodenschi is the woman behind these decorative and functional cat shelters and she has enlisted volunteers to help keep the huts stocked. Volunteers also catch the cats and bring them to the island veterinarian to be spayed/neutered.

The concept of cat cafes could be adapted everywhere! Go be a hero!

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Cat Saves Owners’ Life Hours After Being Adopted

February 23, 2012 By 1 Comment

Amy Jung and her son Ethan rescued a kitty from the Humane Society in Sturgeon, Wisconsin on February 8th… the lucky cat was Pudding AND they even adopted his friend Wimsy. Way to go Amy and Ethan!

As it turns out… THEY were the lucky ones… just hours after they took the kitties home Amy Jung started having a diabetic seizure in her sleep.  That’s when Pudding sprang into action. This little hero sat on Jung’s chest in an trying to wake her up nudging and nipping at her face until she woke up just for a quick second and yelled for her son. Ethan didn’t hear her so Pudding ran into his room and pounced on the bed until he woke up! Ethan called for help and his mother was saved!

Now Pudding is  being registered as a therapy animal, and has learned to sit by Jung’s feet and meow when he senses that her blood sugar is low.

How cool is that!? Here are some more cat hero stories from years prior:

In 2007  Oscar the cat made headlines  after he “predicted” 25 deaths at a nursing home by showing affection for sick patients right before they passed away.

In May 2011, the Atlanta Humane Society reported on a cat who could predict his 19-year-old owner’s seizures minutes before they happened.

In July 2011, a Pennsylvania cat helped save its owner’s life by pawing at her when she was feeling unwell, compelling her to take her condition seriously and call the doctor. She later learned that she had suffered a heart attack.

To the Rescue!

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Human Hero Donna Leetz

February 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Donna Leetz moved into a home in Elgin in 2003 and found herself in neck deep in feral cats! Rather than see this as a problem she took it as an opportunity to keep the local feral cat population in check. She volunteers about 25 hours each week trapping cats to spay or neuter them and then releases them back to their lives. “I’m not a licensed shelter and I’m not a licensed rescue,” Leetz said. “I’m just somebody trying to help.”

Leetz sets humane live traps where she places food inside during a normal feeding time and then waits for the animals to walk in.

She has helped out in situations where people have more than 50 cats in a single residence and regularly works at a smaller scale.

She continues to feed about a dozen of the wild cats on her property and fosters another 12 to 15 of the felines for Cinderella’s Hope, a nonprofit organization in West Dundee that helps with cat adoptions and spaying and neutering of both friendly and feral cats.

Leetz said she doesn’t know how long she’ll keep it up — probably until she goes broke, she said dryly.

“I don’t have a goal, but as long as I can help the animals I will continue to help the animals,” Leetz said.

Thank you Donna, from silly kitties everywhere!

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Cat Hero Dorothy Max Passes Away

February 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Dorothy Max CAT HERO of Cleveland, Ohio passed away this morning. She died peacefully in her sleep at the age of 81.

Dorothy was known for feeding hundreds of stray cats all over Northeast Ohio every day. She would also catch the feral cats, domesticate them, and find them homes through her association with the PetsMart in Willoughby. She was brave enough to catch cats too feral to be adopted, have them neutered and return them to their neighborhood. She would break into abandoned buildings, trespass on private property, scale four-foot snowdrifts and defy drug dealers to feed her charges. She once said she had garnered a grudging respect from drug dealers who didn’t bother her on her daily mission to leave food out for cats in East Side Cleveland neighborhoods. She said some times they even helped carry the bags.

When her car was stolen in 1996, PetsMart and private donors bought her a new one for $10,000.

Her group, Save Our Strays, was a loose-knit organization of volunteers who would help Dorothy on her rounds. Her son said her current group of volunteers have been actively working the daily feedings and caring and would continue Max’s goodwill work.

In addition to her son, Dorothy is survived by a brother, Frank, and a sister, Arlene, both of Euclid.

THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING DOROTHY! You will be missed.

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Cat Loses Leg in Illegal Trap, Hero Hiker Saves the Day

February 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment

In Boston a cat is recovering after having his leg crushed in an illegal trap.

A hero hiker found this kitty with his front left leg crushed in a steel trap that had been set next to popular hiking trails. The cat, who has been dubbed “Mr. Bates” by his veterinarians, spent a day in severe pain and in freezing cold weather with its bones, muscles and tendons crushed in the trap.

The hero hiker contacted local Animal Control officers, and the cat was taken to Angell Animal Medical Center in Boston.

To save the cat’s life vets had to amputate his leg. The MSPCA is not sure if the cat was a pet, as it was not wearing a collar and was not microchipped. They are hopeful if the cat was a pet, the owner will come forward. If he is not claimed, he will be put up for adoption.

Do you know anyone in Boston that wants to help a kitty in need??

The MSPCA is offering a $1,000 reward to anyone with information that leads to a conviction for animal cruelty in the case.

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Miracle Kitty Left for Dead Frozen and Broken on the Road SURVIVES!

February 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment

In Winona MN a kitty has surely used one of his nine lives… 6 month old Percival was hit by a car and the driver left him for dead, flattened and frozen to the street near a cemetery. Thanks to human hero Justin Stoltman, who found the kitty unresponsive and drove him to Pet Medical… little Percy is alive and getting better everyday!

Veterinarian Deb Finnegan, who owns Pet Medical Center in downtown Winona said Percy arrived in shock with extreme frostbite. His x-rays showed the accident had broken his little hips in four spots and shifted them forward two inches. Deb said she was impressed… “he’s got a strong will to live.”

Deb… our second human hero in this story decided to take a chance on Percy. She bought a $400 metal plate and screws to fix Percy’s hip with, then donated her time to perform the necessary four-hour surgery – a very expensive procedure.The next morning, Percy briefly stood… “It was a moment of victory for all of us,” Finnegan said.

Thursday, she amputated three inches of Percy’s tail that had frozen and wasn’t healing. The pads on his small paws still are raw and scabbed, but Finnegan expects Percy to recover. He will be on cage rest for much of the next four weeks.

No one so far has reported Percy missing or come forward to claim him, and if no one speaks up, Finnegan plans to make Percy a permanent member of her family.

Thank you Justin and Deb!

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