Cat Uses One Of Its Nine Lives After Being Buried Alive (owner thought she was dead)

[Liberal_in_LA]

Cat Uses One Of Its Nine Lives After Being Buried Alive

“My Mom thought my cat was dead because she was laying down,” explains six year old Bradley McCallum.

Because I couldn’t find her heart rate or her breathing cause she was completely lifeless,” explains mom, Sarah McCallum.

The cat was cold, including its nose and tongue. Sarah McCallum thought Muffin had headed to the great beyond.

“Then I took tape and wrapped around the outside of the box to prevent critters from trying to dig her up after we buried her,” says McCallum.

The McCallum’s had lost a longtime family cat last year and Sarah thought she was doing the right thing burying Muffin before the kids came home from school. But Bradley wanted to plant a flower at the cat’s grave site when he got home.

“When I was burying a hole for it,” says Bradley kicking a clump of dirt, “I heard a meow.”

“As soon as I put the shovel in the ground then I could hear and then I couldn’t move the dirt fast enough,” says Sarah

That’s right, they thought she was a goner. But the cat came back.

“Even the vet said anyone would have mistaken the cat comatose with her temperature so low,” explains Sarah.

So after being buried for three and 1/2 hours, it wasn’t finite-oh for this feline, instead a seizure Muffin suffered led Sarah to think the cat had died.

But hopefully Bradley will forgive his Mom.

“He asked me why I buried his cat alive,” laughs Sarah.

“This cat is the only cat that likes to snuggle with me,” says Bradley giving his kitty a squeeze.

http://fox2now.com/2013/04/12/cat-uses-one-of-its-nine-lives-after-being-buried/

[Blue Owl]

1. Lazarus Kitteh Lives!

[Bertha Venation]

2. Jesus fucking christ.

Don't let me anywhere near this dipshit.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. Or he buried the cat in sacred native land......

[MinneapolisMatt]

6. BWAHAHAHA!

Sarah better watch out. Muffin hasn't forgotten!

[d_b]

7. Louis

sometimes dead is betta

[CatWoman]

17. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[marshall]

4. Sounds like Mom was tired of cleaning the litter box

If only little Bradley had been a little later in coming home from school, her plan would have worked.

[Liberal_in_LA]

16. Now little Bradley and the whole world are watching.

[joeybee12]

5. Has she ever heart of a vet? nt

[freshwest]

8. I remember tales of people and some devices for them to let people know they were alive in coffins..

Forgot the name of the thing.

[zipplewrath]

11. Dead Ringers

Or so the legend goes. I think these things were more of legend than of fact.

But many cultures do have various traditions around "making sure they're dead".

The Irish had "wakes" where they literally wait to see if they "wake up".

The catholics put up a mirror to the nose of the Pope to see if it fogs.

Before people understood the "pulse" they really didn't know if you were dead or not.

[kimbutgar]

9. When I found my cat dead it was stiff and I buried him in my backyard

I called my husband at work and told him to come home and bury it. Since he was the one who brought the cat home. We had taken him to the vet and they found nothing wrong but he stopped eating and was listless. It was a feral cat who was born at the airport and probably exposed to toxins that eventually did him in. I miss my little Panther.

But it sounds like the Mother didn't want the cat around.

[Recovered Repug]

10. Schrödinger's Cat.

[johnp3907]

12. So it IS dead? And alive?

[Recovered Repug]

14. Until they looked in the box and found it to be alive.

[Arkansas Granny]

13. I probably would have done the same thing if I found my cat unresponsive, cold and

I couldn't find a heartbeat or signs of beathing. I'm glad she put kitty in a box where she had some air to breath. If she had just buried Muffin in the dirt, she likely would have suffocated before being discovered.

[ladjf]

15. Hmm. I think mom was deep sixing Bradley's cat. nt

[dipsydoodle]

18. This one ?

[Liberal_in_LA]

19. omg. hope kitty is ok