Cats And Electricity Don’t Mix
Monday, August 22nd, 2005Apparently hunger trumps common sense in felines just like it does in humans:
GARDNERVILLE, Nev. (AP) – A stalking foray atop a power pole left a lucky feline jolted, frizzled and dazed but otherwise OK after he fell off the 40-foot pole and sparked a fire outside a fire house.
The frazzled cat was discovered when paramedic-firefighters Andrew Chrzanowski and Jeremy Hall responded to the fire Wednesday morning after the lights went out at the Topaz Ranch Estates fire house.
“When we got the fire knocked down we saw this burned cat close to the base of the pole,” Hall said.
They assumed it was dead until Chrzanowski noticed it was breathing. He put it on a blanket and gave it oxygen.
“We both thought that with the amount of burns he had he wasn’t going to make it, but then we started to look more closely and we saw it was all superficial,” Hall said. “The fire just burned all his hair off.”
Man, I hope that bird tasted good! I think it will be awhile before that cat tries his luck with power poles again.
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