37 LIVES LATER, CAT STRANDED IN OLD FIRE COMES HOME.Byline: - Daily News In a swirl of smoke and ash, Black and White slipped into the garage as her owner fled from the fast-approaching flames. The 5-year-old feline feline of, or pertaining to, members of the family Felidae. See also cat. feline agranulocytosis see feline panleukopenia (below). feline actinic dermatitis see solar dermatitis. , named after the splotches of color not of the white race; - commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. See also: Color on her fur, disappeared Oct. 25 when the Old Fire destroyed scores of San Bernardino San Bernardino, city, United States San Bernardino (săn bûr'nədē`nō), city (1990 pop. 164,164), seat of San Bernardino co., S Calif., at the foot of the San Bernardino Mts.; inc. 1854. homes. Her owner, 57-year-old Janie Johnson, never gave up on the cat even though the wildfire turned their home and many others into ash. ``That's the only home she has ever known,'' said Johnson, who is now living in Redlands. Johnson stopped by the site of her old home often to call for B.W., but the cat never came until last week - 37 days after the blaze, when Johnson went back one more time and spotted something moving in the charred rubble of a nearby home. The cat peeked out from the ashes, and Johnson burst into tears. Johnson and a friend tried to lure her pet into an animal trap baited with tuna tuna or tunny, game and food fishes, the largest members of the family Scombridae (mackerel family) and closely related to the albacore and bonito. They have streamlined bodies with two fins, and five or more finlets on the back. . It didn't work. B.W. always enjoyed being groomed groom n. 1. A person employed to take care of horses or a stable. 2. A bridegroom. 3. One of several officers in an English royal household. 4. Archaic a. A man. b. , so Johnson got the cat's comb comb 1. a vascular, red cutaneous structure attached in a sagittal plane to the dorsum of the skull of domestic fowl. It consists of a base attached to the skull, a central mass called the body, a backward projecting blade and upward projecting points. 2. and waited for her to get close. She ran the comb through the animal's ash-stained fur a few times and then quickly pinched the cat's nape so she could place her in a carrier. ``You can't imagine the relief that came over me,'' Johnson said. ``After 37 days, I finally had my cat.'' B.W. lost a little weight while she was gone, but she suffered no other injuries during her monthlong separation. Animal control collected 450 animals after the Old Fire. |
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