11/08/09

Millie the Tortie, Missing 2 Months, Found Buried in Snowbank
Karen Nichols

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53 days after escaping at a Cheyenne, WY truck stop, Millie the Cat has been reunited with her family, thanks to her ID tags.

In September, the Schnieber family lost Millie at the Flying J truck stop when she leaped from the back window. After an extensive search, the family returned to their home in New Mexico.

The Schneibers had given up hope, but two months later, they got the phone call. Millie had been found, buried in the snowbank on the side of a highway. Her rescuer, Scott Alexander, saw her back paw move slightly. He and his family dug her out.

“At that time, we saw just her back paw move just a little bit, and I said, ‘Oh my gosh, she’s alive,’” Alexander said. “Her body felt like an ice cube. Nothing worked … I didn’t think she would make it.”

Alexander adds that when she woke up, Millie was blind and would run into things. “She was very uncoordinated. But as you can see, she’s back!”

[LINK: FoxDC.com]

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10/03/08

Check Your Pants, Dude!
Karen Nichols

When Officer Mike Ableman was called to shoo a housecat off a woman’s porch in Wyoming, he hardly expected to encounter a 90-lb male mountain lion.

Beverly Hood, the homeowner, called for help when she saw the cougar snoozing on her porch. Like a game of “Telephone,” something got lost in translation, and the control center dispatcher told Officer Ableman that a housecat was bothering the woman. Imagine his surprise when he climbed onto the porch and found the napping cougar.

An officer from the Wyoming Fish and Game Department was summoned to tranquilize the cat and relocate it.

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Categorized Weird News, Wild Cats.Tagged Mountain Lion, Wild Cats, Wyoming.