Snowey the Cat, of Tauranga, NZ, is only alive today because she took a dramatic leap from a second floor window to escape a raging house fire. She’s not out of the woods, yet. She suffered some burns in the fire and has weeks of veterinary treatment ahead of her. Everyone assumed Snowey had died [ Read More ]
Tina Delbrune and her family lost everything they owned in a house fire in Minnesota this week. They almost lost their cat, Krispy, as well, but for the quick thinking of paramedic Sondra Bergem. When a firefighter brought Bergem the unresponsive cat who’d been discovered in a limp heap at the foot of the stairs, [ Read More ]
This week Iams kicked off its 2011 Iams Home 4 the Holidays program by awarding the Mike Arms/Iams Hero Award to the Austin Human Society for its extraordinary disaster relief efforts for animals affected by this year’s wildfires in central Texas. Mike Arms, president of the Helen Woodward Animal Center presented a plaque to Austin [ Read More ]
It took four days for anyone to discover Robbie Burns, a ginger tabby who’d barely survived a building’s inferno. He was found in the charred remains of a block of flats that was gutted in a huge fire. He was delivered to the RSPCA hosital, where he was nursed back to health over the course [ Read More ]
Firefighters reported seeing Dru Lapointe’s cats, Babygirl and Li’l Kitty during the fire that destroyed his apartment at the end of July, but the cats were elusive and firefighters couldn’t catch them. During the cleanup, an excavator spotted a grey cat as he was removing rubble from the basement. The cat scampered away and hid [ Read More ]
It started with a text message: “1 cat at emergency vet. 1 cat not found.” Newlyweds Jeff Lewis and Elizabeth Larson were out of town, vacationing in North Carolina when they received the odd text message. And then came all the phone calls from relatives. It turns out, their apartment in Roanoke, Virginia was destroyed [ Read More ]
