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CHUCK

Take a good look at this cat. He is some cat. You've heard that cats have nine lives. Well Chuck has used up eight and a half of his lives! Chuck is 15 years old and has never in his life been an outside cat. He has been declawed and neutered.

About a week or so ago Lisa, my niece, and owner of the cat was getting rid of a mattress and box springs from a bedroom and she had it removed to her storage building.

Later she missed the cat but was not too alarmed because the cat often hid out somewhere and might stay hidden for several hours. The next day she still had not seen Chuck so she started looking for him. She searched everywhere she thought he might be and Chuck was not in any of the places where he usually hid.

She continued to look for him. Finally she thought about it and decided that maybe he had gotten out the door when they removed the mattress and box springs. She expected to see him at the door at any time but he never showed up. After two or three days she gave up and decided that he was gone for good. She gave away an almost full bag of cat food and a bag of litter to a friend and started to grieve for Chuck.

Several times she had been to her shed for things and never heard a sound or peep while there. Eight and a half days and nine nights later she went to the shed for something and her dog, Petie was with her. Petie started going nuts barking and sniffing and jumping up and down. Lisa went over to see what he was so excited about and looked behind that box springs and was greeted with two large green eyes--Chuck! He would not come out so she got a neighbor to help her get him. He is a very strange cat so he ran from them. They did catch him and he was much alive and in pretty good shape.

That cat lived in that shed with no food and no water for those nine nights and eight and a half days . She knows he did because the shed was locked and no one was in it except her. There were no holes or places where he could have possibly gotten out to get to any food or water.

Have you ever heard of anything so strange? I can believe that the cat could survive without food for nine days but not without water!

I talked to my sister today and she said the cat has been drinking a lot of water and was beginning to eat some food. So Chuck is a survivor! I am sure he must only have about half a life left! Lisa now knows that Chuck was hiding up under the box springs somewhere when they too it to the shed and was locked in the shed. Hurrah for Chuck!