Gloria the Cat Rescued from Glass Crushing Machine
Thanks to an alert clerk at the Stop & Shop Supermarket in the Swampscott Mall, Gloria the Cat has a chance of enjoying her remaining eight lives.
The clerk called the Swampscott (Mass.) Police Department when he heard a cat mewing from the inside of a glass-crushing recycling machine. The machine operates by having two grinding gears come together to crush glass upon activation by an internal motor. If another glass had been dropped in, Gloria would have been mutilated.
They unplugged the machine and removed the front so that animal control officer Diane Treadwell could reach in and pry the cat out.
“I looked up into the machine. Gloria was up inside, perched on a little shelf maybe an inch wide, between the motor and the two crushers,” Treadwell says. “There was a space, maybe an inch or an inch and a half wide and when I looked into it, all I could see was a tail.”
Treadwell stuck her hand into the space to reach the cat.
“I just grabbed her by the scruff of her neck and by her tail and pulled,” Treadwell says. “Her head got a little stuck trying to get through the narrow part but I wiggled and it came out.”
Gloria was totally covered in glass dust.
“She had glass dust in her eyes that I flushed out as soon as I could,” Treadwell says. “But the most amazing thing is that throughout this all, Gloria never scratched or bit.”
Gloria was named after disco queen Gloria Gaynor, who performed the 70s hit, “I Will Survive.”
Treadwell added, “I can’t imagine anyone cruel enough to have put the cat inside the machine. But I do know that Gloria has used up one of her nine lives.”
You can make this happy ending complete by adopting Gloria. She’s at the Marblehead Animal Shelter, 44 Village St. Marblehead, Mass. They’re open from 4 to 6 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays and from noon to 3 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Their phone number is 781-631-8664.
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What a sweet kitty, and so beautiful. I sure hope she finds a good home, and boo hiss on whoever did this to her!
You have to wonder why the cat was in there in the first place? Doesn’t the supermarket have a sign on the door that says “no pets allowed”? Or did a cruel person actually put her in the machine?
What a horrid thot of whut kooda happind. I’m glad it had a happy ending tho. If some person put her in thare I hope thay roest in hot places in eternity.
That is totally disgusting! There is something terribly wrong with any human who would do such a cruel thing to any animal. We hope Gloria gets a loving home.
We will be purring for gloria to find a great furever home. And if a person put here in the machine, well, we won’t be wishing that person nice things at all.
I am so glad that kitty was saved, just to think she may have been killed is beyond words.
may she have a a long and happy life in a wonderful forever home, and never be hurt again in any way.
Yay for Ernie! He’s very handsome, and he has 2 gorgeous gray siblings to play with now, just like Whitey!
I am so glad Gloria was saved. Thank goodness for the one good person that paid attention to the mewing and DID something to save her.
Go, Gloria! She must have a guardian angelcat looking over her. xo.
What a fabulous name and quite appropriate. She’s a beauty. I don’t think she’ll be homeless for long.
Quincy, Molly & Regis just want to thank Ms. Diane for saving Gloria. They were very upset when they heard how awful some humans are toward the feline world. And a big thank you to those who were working the machine and stopped it b4 it was too late.
Happy tails for you Ms. Gloria.
Oh we iz soh purrin fur dis baby! Mai babiez just gotted homes today and Ize hope dis baby duz furry soon!
Daisy May Daffodil
who iz axshully meowling in the bafroom rites now…
hur missin babiez n stuffoms – Katie Too
I sure hope Gloria accidentally got into the machine and no one actually put her in there. Sometimes this world really scares me. I really hope no one was that cruel.
I hope Gloria finds a good home to spend her remaining lives.
Woo hoo! Yay fur Gloria n for them nise beans!
We just checked the shelter site and she’s not listed.Hope that means she’s adopted!
We just can’t understand the mindset of anyone who would want a cat to suffer a gory and painful death. Thank goodness the clerk was alert and animal control was able to rescue Gloria. She is a beautiful kitty, and we purray she’ll get the wonderful home she deserves. And we hope the monster who put her in the machine gets what he/she deserves, too.
I am so happy for Gloria, it is terrible what people are capable of. We have been reading and seeing on the news all kinds of animal cruelty lately..
Gloria I so hope you find your forever home very soon, you are a beautiful little girl and so lucky. I do hope that no human put you in there as I can not believe some humans can be so cruel.
Sending all my purrs to you Tilly xx