r.i.p. scarlett :(

somehow i missed hearing about this in october.

Scarlett, the cat, whose story of bravery, uncompromising love and triumph over all odds, has passed on. The heroine calico, who in 1996 made headlines around the world for pulling her five kittens to safety from a raging fire, lost her battle with multiple illnesses this week after living with her adoptive family in Brooklyn, New York for over 12 years.

Back in 1996, Scarlett was tending to her kittens in an abandoned Brooklyn garage when a fire broke out. Having extinguished the blaze, firefighters sighted the mother cat, slowly carrying her four-week old kittens from the building. Badly scorched, her ears radically burned, she lined up her babies. With her eyes blistered from the inferno, she was seen touching each with her nose, to reassure herself that her litter of five had made it to safety. She then collapsed unconscious.


http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2008/10/24/2008-10-24_scarlett_the_cat_that_saved_kittens_from.html






http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlett_the_cat





in 1996 when this happened... i was one of those thousands of people that tried to call the shelter was she was to see if i could adopt her.


i'm happy to see she had a long, happy, pampered life with her people.

confused?

if you haven't seen this... you should....

the hoff's reaction is the best thing ever.



and yes...it's old. but i just found it