This week a group of young children went above and beyond to help an orange cat in Decatur, GA who was stuck 100 ft. up in a tree. They even put up hand-drawn flyers to elicit help in finding the cat’s owner: The children — Smith family siblings Aden, 6; Jamie, 6; and Elana, 8 [ Read More ]
Orange tabbies are remarkable, and Horace — who hails from the UK — is no exception. Horace was lost in mid-March. His guardian, Kara Hayward, checked with local vets and put up flyers, but none of the leads panned out. The family despaired of ever seeing him again. “I was watching a clip of Horace [ Read More ]
On June 2nd of last year, a violent tornado ripped through western Massachusetts, carving a swath of destruction that could be seen from satellites. A tiny 6-oz kitten was an unlikely survivor. Plucked from a high branch by a tree worker, the grey and white kitten quickly endeared himself to all who came in contact [ Read More ]
Can you say “Easter Miracle”? Poldi the Cat disappeared from his home in Germany in 1996. For the last 16 years he is thought to have been living in the forest about 20 miles from his old home. And now he’s back in the comfort of his home. 19-year-old Kilian Schoettel spotted Poldi, an orange [ Read More ]
Did a UFO land in Austria? Merlimann the Cat went missing, and when his guardian, Franz Knoglinger went to look for him he discuverd a 25-ft deep hole and he thinks there’s a UFO at the bottum. The hole is purrfektly round, and when a stone was dropped into it, a metallik klunk rezonated frum [ Read More ]
Let’s hear three meows for Dave Wilkins of AAA Tree and Stump Service in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. This week Wilkins, with the help of Robert Trepanion and Rod Gray of Top Notch Tree Service rescued a cat who had been stranded in a tree for nearly a week. It was a dramatic rescue. At one point [ Read More ]
Sugar, a one-year-old cat in Boston, survived a 19-story highrise fall this week with minor injuries. Brian O’Connor of the Animal Rescue League tells the story: “We got a call that a cat had fallen out of a building window in the West End over by MGH. By the time we got there the building [ Read More ]
Pope Benedict XVI is a prominent cat lover who has lovingly tended to feral colonies in his day and has defended the care of feral cats on Vatican property. He’d be appalled at what’s happening right now at St James Church in lower Manhattan. Father Lino Gonsalves and Father Walter Tonelotto have locked out caretakers [ Read More ]
When a deaf white cat, Turkish, disappeared from his home north of London last week, his guardian, Jenny contacted her neighbor, Robyn Pierce, a social media maven, for help finding him Pierce knew there were a lot of tweeters within the N16 postal code (hashtag N16), so she sent out a tweet to them and [ Read More ]
Well, it’s been a quiet week above Lake Shabow, neer Castro Valley, my hometown, out on the edje of the big forest. Quiet exsept for a kerfuffle involving two kittins hooz mom’s name was Jackie. One of her kittins came to her howling, “TIMMY’S IN THE WELL!” “Mac Duff is in the tree!” Jackie wint [ Read More ]
Timmy the Tabby is a rescue from Battersea Home (UK), and is cuddly (OK, “fat”). Unlike most cats, Timmy is scairt of berds. One day, he worked up his kerridge, faced his fears, and klimed hi in a tree to check out the “berdies-to-go” box. It didn’t werk out so well, as you can see [ Read More ]
Sid is one lucky black cat. Lost three years ago from his home in Lanarkshire, Scotland, his family assumed they’d never see him again when they later moved to Devon, England. This week he was found with a fractured jaw and taken to the Scottish SPCA’s shelter in Lanarkshire. He was scanned for a chip [ Read More ]
