Weird BUT true

A little kitty may have lost a few of her nine lives, but she’s safe and sound now.

Cleo, a 7-month-old house cat, went missing after owner Amanda Egan and her family were in a car crash en route from Utah to Bellingham, Wash.

Two weeks later, the Egans got a call from someone in Oregon who’d found Cleo and tracked them down using the cat’s ID tags.

The family is “so excited” to have her back, Egan said.

This new holiday trend isn’t half-bad.

Sales of “half Christmas trees” are up 150 percent, says Wayfair, an online retailer.

The oddly shaped shrubs conveniently fit in small spaces, as they can be pushed up against a wall or corner.

Wayfair says colored Christmas trees in baby blue, hot pink and orange are hot, too.

Not the birthday this Florida woman envisioned.

Crystal Garlin, 32, of Fort Myers, had wanted her boyfriend to pay for her to get her hair and nails done for her big day, police said.

When he refused, she allegedly sliced him with a knife — and ended up arrested.

An Ohio prisoner is sitting on a gold mine.

Tommy Thompson has been jailed for nearly two years because he won’t reveal the whereabouts of $50 million in gold coins and bars that his treasurehunting team unearthed in the 130-year-old shipwreck of the S.S. Central America, dubbed the “Ship of Gold.”

When 161 investors sued Thompson for their share, he went on the lam until he was jailed.

These zookeepers otter know better.

Workers at the Calgary Zoo in Canada were disciplined when Logan, a 12-year-old river otter, drowned after getting tangled in the pant leg of trousers in which they dressed him. One worker jumped in and tried in vain to save the critter.