Posted by Fat Cat on May 06, 2006 at 07:46:47:
Here's a cool cat story:
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=bizarre&id=3619780
Cat Rescued After Wild Adventure
WABC From 7online.com
(Wenatchee, Wash. -WABC, November 9, 2005) - This cat's nine lives might be running low.
Officials said the longhair gray cat fell 70 feet off a bridge into the chilly Columbia River after leaping from a pickup truck and scampering through traffic. Then it swam another 600 feet to shore.
The cat, which had no collar or identification, 'ate ravenously' at an animal shelter after the ordeal, Wenatchee Valley Humane Society officer Jody White said.
Joi Singleton and her husband, Ron, were driving over the Odabashian Bridge on Sunday morning when they saw something come off a pickup ahead of them.
When they came back on foot and called the Humane Society when they spotted the cat cowering on a a concrete barrier.
Two officers put the cat in a portable kennel, but it jumped out 'like a jack-in-the-box before we could secure the door' and leaped over the railing, White said.
The group ran to the river shore and cheered on the cat.
'Once it spun around in a current and we thought that was it,' Singleton said. 'Then this guy in a kayak came out of nowhere and started pushing it toward us. The officers got a noose around its neck and pulled it in.'
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