Cat survives three frigid days in snowbank
Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 5:39 pm
SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. (CP) - Colby is one cool cat.
The Siamese spent three bone-chilling days buried in a snowbank in Summerside - and lived to meow about it.
Fourteen-year-old Colby wandered off from his home in the east end of Summerside during Monday's blizzard.
There was a wind chill of about -27.
On Wednesday, the cat's owner heard a faint meow from a snowbank next to her home and there, inside, was Colby.
"I heard the noise and then there was a little, tiny smidge of a hole," said Marlene Cameron. "It must have been an air hole for him to breathe.
"And I just dug down and pulled him out. I'll tell you, I was awfully glad to see that big, brown, furry face!"
She said she bundled Colby up and took him to the vet for a checkup. The feisty feline is now doing just fine.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNe.../803448-cp.html
The Siamese spent three bone-chilling days buried in a snowbank in Summerside - and lived to meow about it.
Fourteen-year-old Colby wandered off from his home in the east end of Summerside during Monday's blizzard.
There was a wind chill of about -27.
On Wednesday, the cat's owner heard a faint meow from a snowbank next to her home and there, inside, was Colby.
"I heard the noise and then there was a little, tiny smidge of a hole," said Marlene Cameron. "It must have been an air hole for him to breathe.
"And I just dug down and pulled him out. I'll tell you, I was awfully glad to see that big, brown, furry face!"
She said she bundled Colby up and took him to the vet for a checkup. The feisty feline is now doing just fine.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNe.../803448-cp.html