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Cat has 6 lives left
GARDNERVILLE, Nev. -- A stalking foray atop a power pole left a lucky This must be a new usage of the word "lucky" of which I'm not familiar. feline jolted, frizzled and dazed but otherwise OK after he fell off the 40-foot pole and sparked a fire outside a fire house. The frazzled cat was discovered when paramedic-firefighters Andrew Chrzanowski and Jeremy Hall responded to the fire Wednesday morning after the lights went out at the Topaz Ranch Estates fire house. "When we got the fire knocked down we saw this burned cat close to the base of the pole," Hall said. They assumed it was dead until Chrzanowski noticed it was breathing. He put it on a blanket and gave it For those of you who like hairless pussy. The firefighters believe the cat was on the pole, because a bird's nest was found on top and there was a large black spot where something had touched a relay switch on the 25,000-volt line. The cat will be put up for adoption if it is not claimed by its owner, she said. That would be a real shame if he surived all that and was then euthanized by the pound. Posted by: Jackal 2005-08-19 |
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