NY neighborhood unites to find cats after crane collapse

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--craneaccident-cat0404apr04,0,2475538.story

By VERENA DOBNIK | Associated Press Writer
April 4, 2008



NEW YORK - When a mammoth crane collapsed, wrecking a Manhattan brownstone and killing a woman inside, there was scant hope any life would emerge from the rubble. Six other people died in the accident.

Somehow, two cats survived.

One cat, Mr. Gloves, was found the day of the building collapse, huddled by a church door and coated in brick dust; the other, Gooksie, turned up 10 days later in an old coal chute under a nearby brownstone.

The four-legged creatures, whose owners, Jean Squeri and Kerry Walker, lived on the top floor of the demolished building, are now staying with the couple in Squeri's son's apartment.

"It's a miracle," said Gini Otway, a neighbor who led the search for the animals.

Otway lived two buildings away from the East 50 Street townhouse, not far from the United Nations, that was reduced to rubble in the March 15 tragedy.


FULL story at link.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Miracles happen every day. Isn't it wonderful?

[Warpy]

2. Cats are amazingly tough little buggers

with amazing powers of recuperation. How else could something that little and soft survive living with us?

[NJCher]

3. I'm so happy for these kitties

and their humans.

A happy ending. :)



Cher

[lonestarnot]

4. Excellent!

I'm glad they were found!