A grey and white kitten found by a field technician in the J. C. Elliot Landfill in Corpus Christie, Texas, has been rescued and immediately put to work as head office cat. Rescuers named him Elliot after the landfill.

Like most youngsters, Elliot has had no trouble at all learning how to use the computer. Most days he can be found, like most office workers, surfing the interwebs and filing TPS reports. Don’t forget the cover sheet, Elliot!

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A big grey Texas tabby got an E-ticket ride to safety after a dramatic rescue from the freeway expansion joint into which he had fallen. The cat had probably been walking along the highway and either sought a safe hidey place or fell down into the expansion joint, three stories up in the air at Beltway 8 and IH-10 near Channelview.

Blake McGee was walking his dog on Tuesday night when he heard the cat’s plaintive, pitiful yowls. McGee contacted the Houston SPCA, and after assessing the situation, equipment was brought in on Wednesday morning. Chief Investigator Charles Jantzen (who is not afraid of heights) hopped in the cherry picker to attempt a rescue.

Jantzen spent some time allowing the cat to get comfortable around him, then coaxed the skittish, frightened cat with an offering of food. The cat walked the length of the roadway to a point where Jantzen was able to grab him and drop him into a carrier. Jantzen reported that the cat was obviously dehydrated and covered in an oily substance, indicating he’d probably been trapped for several days.

It’s not yet known if the cat is a stray or has a home. There will be time for the rightful owner to claim it, after which the cat will undergo medical and behavioral evaluations to determine if he’s adoptable. Mr McGee is hopeful that he’ll be able to adopt the cat, who he plans to name “Lucky.”

Thank you, Blake McGee, and thank you, Charles Janzen!

Blake McGee (in the hooded sweatshirt) takes a photo of the tabby he hopes to adopt
and name “Lucky.” McGee alerted the SPCA to the cat’s predicament.

Here’s video of the rescue:


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A passerby made a gruesome discovery along Cibolo Creek outside of San Antonio Texas this week: seven garbage bags full of dead cats. All of the cats were adults and all appeared to be purebred Siamese, about 49 cats in all.

Guadalupe County Animal Control responded to the call on Wednesday, according to Sheriff Arnold Zwicke. The cats appeared to have been frozen before being dumped.

“We brought some of them to a local veterinarian and he’s checking them out,” Zwicke said. “The rest we buried by the (county) road and bridge yard in Marion.”

The vet will attempt to determine the cause of death. Additionally, the sheriff’s department is analyzing the bags for fingerprints.

“It needs to be taken seriously,” Zwicke said. “It’s not every day that someone does something like this.”

At this point, the best guess is that the dead cats were dumped by a breeder. They may have been killed after an outbreak of a communicable disease in the breeding facility made it too expensive to provide the cats with medical treatment. Another theory was that the cats died from carbon monoxide poisoning after a heater malfunctioned.

Tonja Pfister, director of Texas Siamese Rescue agrees that it’s likely the cats were dumped by a breeder or perhaps a desperate cat hoarder. “Let’s regulate breeders,” Pfister said. “Is there any reason the U.S.D.A does not require breeders to be licensed?”

Sheriff Zwicke promised a full investigation. “There is a better way to handle it if it was an accident,” Zwicke said. “And if it was on purpose, we need to bring this person to justice.”

Pfister said she was encouraged that the Sheriff’s Department appears to be taking the case seriously. “Sheriff Zwicke is an animal person and he does care,” she said. “I congratulate the sheriff, and I usually don’t do that with sheriffs.”

The incident is being investigated currently as a littering case, but could become an animal cruelty case, pending the results of the veterinarian’s findings.

Anyone with information about the cats should call the Guadalupe County Sheriff’s Department at (830) 379-1224.

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