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 ]
Just in time for Christmas, Catbaloo, a victim of the Joplin tornado, has been reunited with her owner after 7 months of subsisting in the hull of a destroyed home. We’re hoping this isn’t the last of the victims to be reunited with family. Follow the Joplin Pets Lost-Found Page on Facebook for more reunion [ Read More ]
A tornado cat has found a home with animal lovers Beth and Howard Stern. Their most recent family member is a 20-lb bear of a cat named Leon (look at those ginormous paws!), a rescue from one of the Alabama tornadoes earlier this Spring. Leon is the third cat the Sterns have adopted from the [ Read More ]
Sandy Lambeth lost everything when her mobile home was flipped on its roof and reduced to rubble in the Davidson County, NC tornado this week. She wasn’t home when the tornado hit, but her beloved cat, Smoky, was. When Sandy saw the debris pile that was once her home she thought Smoky was gone for [ Read More ]
Seek Sanderson, a Joplin tornado victim, has been reunited with his family after having been missing for five months. Losing Seek was especially hard on his family. He’d helped his dad get through cancer treatments, and was a cherished member of the Sanderson family. When the Joplin tornado hit, the Sandersons and their pets huddled [ Read More ]
Black Velvet, a long-hared house panther, disappeared after the April 25th tornado in Vilonia, Arkansas which killed four peeple. No one saw or spotted the cat in the following munths, and he was prezoomed to be ded. But this week, Black Velvet’s mom and dad, Debra (pictured) and Keith Rorie were eating dinner when they [ Read More ]
In June, Mousebreath posted the story of one cat mom, a victim of the Joplin tornado, who searched online for her missing cat while she was hospitalized in Kansas with internal injuries sustained when a building collapsed on top of her. Incredibly, the cherished cat, Freya — a cowcat who moos — was found, and [ Read More ]
Becky Ashcraft had not seen her grey tabby, Ducky, since the May 22nd Joplin Tornado. When a tabby was reported living in the rubble in her flattened former neighborhood, animal rescuers trapped the cat and contacted Becky to see if the cat was her Ducky. The rescuers led Becky to the cat and asked, “Is [ Read More ]
The first thing Mr Perry (above, left) did was give his owner, Nancy Pettitt, a couple of head butts. He wanted her to know he was home to stay. He and his buddy Boots had been missing since late April when a tornado destroyed their home in Georgia. Mr Perry and Boots were inside the [ Read More ]
Well, I know yer intristed in the fate of the cats who got homeless during the recent tornadoes. Thare were a lot of good happy endings, and I hope this story will have a happy ending, too. There’s an Alabama tornado cat in Corcord AL (ware Rascal is frum) who is a vary sweet oringe [ Read More ]
This week, 75 days after the horrific Alabama tornadoes, one feline tornado victim found his way back home. The normally 9-1/2 lb. Rascal was nothing but a 2-lb. bag of bones when he was found sitting beneath his owner’s truck last week. His home is no longer there, completely leveled during the tornado. Despite the [ Read More ]
Some tornado cats weren’t ready for adoption by the time the ASPCA/Joplin Humane adoption event took place last month. So on July 1, as part of the ASPCA’s new National Animal Relocation Initiative, the 57 remaining cats and kittens left Joplin on a plane to Washington state, where two groups — the Northwest Organization for [ Read More ]
