NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2009
"Miracle" Cat Survives Stabbing
"Hershey," Attacked During Burglary, Survives with Knife Lodged in Back
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Play CBS Video Video Cat Survives Stabbing Robbers ransacked a Va. family home and stabbed the family cat three times. Miraculously, the cat survived the attack and is fully recovered. The family spoke with Harry Smith.
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"/> Hershey, a 10-year-old Persian cat, was stabbed three times by burgulars, Joe Ciccone said on "The Early Show." (CBS)
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Brittani Ciccone found the bloody, 10-year-old Persian cat. She said on "The Early Show" Tuesday, she didn't know the animal had been stabbed because the thieves had broken off the knife's handle.
She said she only saw a metal piece sticking out from his body, and didn't know what it was.
"I was pretty freaked," she said.
Joe Ciccone said he believes four men broke into their home.
"They ransacked (our house), tore it up," he said. "They stole everything we had."
Joe, a fudge maker, said it was one of his specialty knives they used to stab Hershey.
When veterinarians performed an X-ray on Hershey, Joe said, they found a blade still embedded in his back, shoved all the way through his body.
Hershey spent five days in intensive care, but survived -- with eight lives left. Hershey's doctor called the cat a "miracle."
Hershey still has two tubes attached for drainage, as his body mends. The Ciccones said Hershey has started eating again and his personality has returned.
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- bonjour
je l'ai vu ca matin, pauvre "hershey" il semblait terrifié, s'en prendre a un chat quelle cruauté...prompt guérison minou...au revoir - Reply to this comment
- How does anyone know what this cat was doing at the time of the crime? Maybe the cat was packing heat & the burglars had to fight their way out of the house terrified at the trigger happy feline taking pot shots at them & had to use the knife on the cat to give them a window to escape with their lives. There's two sides to every story ya know!!
Either way. Good kitty!! - Reply to this comment
- Sweet innocent kitty. I hope he continues to improve and they catch the monsters who did it.
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- The cops probably know who did it. They probably even have all the burglarized stuff in secret storage, that they auction off every year to get money. Cops are the biggest front in home burglaries, because people don't mark their stuff, and the cops won't give you your stuff unless you can prove it is yours.
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