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Tanuki

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Wed Mar 11, 2020, 07:19 PM Mar 2020

Missing cat rescued from rubble after Tennessee tornado reunited with owner

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/missing-cat-rescued-in-rubble-after-tornado-returned-to-owner

..."NewsChannel 5 was in the middle of interviewing Lauren Neal on her property on Charlton Square last Wednesday when a volunteer asked if she owned a cat. Dozens of volunteers were already helping Neal with clean-up efforts when someone found the cat underneath a pile of debris just a few feet away. The rescue was met with jubilation as they all frantically figure out who the cat belongs to.

It was a piece of good news near an area where 18 people, five among children, were killed.
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"I was like, 'Oh, thank God! I love my cat!'" 12-year-old Clare Moyer told NewsChannel 5.

Clare and her father Ray were stunned to learn their cat named Kitty Meow Meow survived the tornado. Like thousands of others, they watched the video shared on the NewsChannel 5 Facebook page and knew it was their cat.

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Kitty Meow Meow was rescued when she was a kitten two years ago. She had been living at Ray's house which sits right behind Neal's home. Neal's teenage daughter was sucked out from her room by the tornado and is still alive after landing in Ray's pool.

Ray said he was lifted off the ground seconds after the windows to his living room were blown out. He suffered cracked two vertebrae as a result. Luckily, his children weren't home."...(more)



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Missing cat rescued from rubble after Tennessee tornado reunited with owner (Original Post) Tanuki Mar 2020 OP
A little good mews, anyhow. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #1
Yes! tonekat Mar 2020 #2
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