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PURRFECT OUTCOME AS VETS REVIVE FROZEN FLUFFY

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VETERINARI­ANS in Montana revived a cat named Fluffy that nearly froze to death after being found in a snowbank covered from head to tail in ice and snow.

Jevon Clark of the Animal Clinic of Kalispell said on Thursday that Fluffy was unresponsi­ve and her body temperatur­e didn’t register on the clinic’s thermomete­rs when her owners brought her in a week earlier.

Staff warmed the cat using towels, cage warmers and intravenou­s fluids. Fluffy is normally a little crabby, so when she began growling after about an hour, Dr Clark knew she would be fine, he said.

“These crabby cats are survivors,” Dr Clark said.

After Dr Clark, Dr China Corum and their staff picked the ice off Fluffy’s coat and she started moving around, they sent her to an emergency clin- ic to help raise her body temperatur­e. The cat was discharged to her owners the same night, and when Dr Clark checked her on Tuesday, she appeared to be back to normal, he said.

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