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Cat saved after 19 days with jar on its head



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A FERAL cat in Tennessee survived for 19 days with a jar stuck on its head.
Tabitha Cain, 25, has fed the cat, which she calls Wild Oats, for several years. The family saw the cat a number of times with the peanut butter jar on its head and tried in vain to catch it.

But after not seeing the cat for a week, the Cains feared the worst. "I thought she was going to die with that jar on her head," said Ms Cain.

They found the once-chubby cat on Wednesday, too thin and weak to flee. They caught her with a fishing net and used some oil to get the jar off her head. They gave her water and treated her wounds and on Friday she began to eat again.

"I've heard of cats having nine lives but I think this one has 19 because she survived 19 days," said Doretha Cain, Tabitha's mother.

Memphis vet Gerald Blackburn said the cat may have lived off of its excess fat.



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Conan,

Moffat 03/12/2007 06:03:17

Wind Oats - that's a hell of a name for a cat. Should have been called pickles, or jam, or marmalade - you know, something that comes in a jar. Yeah - let's hear it for 'excess fat' ..... all you skinny cats, read it and weep.

2

mina,

Glasgow 03/12/2007 08:49:38

1. Conan, thanks for making me laugh reading your post.

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03/12/2007 09:02:52
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ThePeter,

Glasgae 03/12/2007 17:58:18

Lucky tends to be a dogs name, so can not call it that.....

5

Douglas,

Bathgate 04/12/2007 00:04:58

Pussy in a jar.

Saints preserve us. :o)

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pastor ray,

Southeastern Ohio 04/12/2007 02:02:05

The same thing happened to my daughter's cat Frosty. Tabitha [my daughter] could not find her for over 2 weeks and when she did Frosty had a plastic peanut butter jar over head.
Frosty had rubbed a hole in the jar to get water but when you tried to pick her up she started clawing anyone and everyone who touched her.
Finally my Dad and my brother threw a throw rug over her and because she had lost so much weight the jar just slipped right off her head.
My brother when the jar came off got chewed and clawed all over when the jar came off.
If it had been up to me I would have just shot it [I HATE CATS!!!] but it wasn't and it survived to live a few more years.


 

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