From the NZ Herald:
A pet cat has stunned an animal expert by surviving 19 hours in his owners’ freezer.
Sarah Crombie, 27, discovered Krillen lying stiff and semi-conscious on a bag of dog food when she went to get a loaf of bread.
I was looking in there and I heard this funny noise,” said the Te Kuiti mother-of-two. “It was sort of a ‘miaow’ but he was so half-frozen he couldn’t get the noise out properly, poor thing. So I look down and I see this grey fluffy thing sitting on top of the bag of dog food under a rack.”
Her partner Sid Sisson had shut the top-loading freezer the night before, not realising Krillen was inside.
On discovering the 1-year-old Sarah feared the worst, as the freezer is kept on its coldest setting, about -18C. “I raced inside to get Sid and as I came out, Krillen rolled off the bag in an attempt to get out, but he was that frozen he just rolled to the bottom of the freezer on his back,” she said. “At first we thought his eyeballs were frozen. I’ve never seen a cat with such big eyes.”
Fortunately, Sid, 28, knew it was essential to raise the body temperature of hypothermia sufferers slowly. So he put the cat under his shirt and got into bed with him.
The dairy farmer kept Krillen under blankets and against his bare chest for three hours until he thawed out. “I was sitting on the other side of the bed and the whole bed was vibrating from this cat shaking,” said Sarah.
Amazingly, Krillen seems to have emerged from his ordeal unscathed. “But I tell you, he doesn’t go near the freezer any more,” said Sarah.
One good reason why we always make sure we know where Train is before we go to bed!
savvycat x
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I actually know Simone that this happened to her cat survived too. One more reason to not get those bottom drawer freezers
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Oh No! Poor thing! Glad he’s ok
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Holy catfood, Batman! Krillen’s survival is nothing short of a miracle! You’ve got to be SO careful with cats. Suey came close to being shut in a postbag when I sent a package- I only turned my back for 2 seconds.
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That is just unreal I am so glad that they eat toast for breakfast, or they may not have opened the freezer until too late!
Sends shivers down my spine for a variety or reasons :)
Amazing story. Whenever i can’t find alvin i check both the fridge and the dishwasher..no joke he gets into anything and everything
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Cats are amazing creatures.
Though I am so sad because mine has been missing for a week. Written a story about her on my blog – I thought savvy cat might give me some hope that she will return because cats are mysterious and disappear but return, right?
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