If seven-year-old Rascal could talk...oh the stories he would tell.
But to understand his latest story you have to back up to April 27th.
"We just kind of figured he didn't make it," Laura Ogden said. "Because he was in that end of the house that was totally destroyed."
Ogden says after the tornado destroyed her Concord home Rascal was nowhere to be found.
April turned into May. May turned into June and then July. But on July 11, 75 days after the tornados...a surprise was lying underneath her truck in the driveway.
"Man, when I picked him up, he wasn't nothing but a bag of bones," George Ogden said.
Rascal was home.
But he was far from perfect condition. His collar had somehow managed to get tangled up in his front left leg.
"It was working its way to cutting his leg off," Veterinarian David Langford said.
Langford says the nine-and-a-half pound cat was now only two pounds.
He performed surgery by cutting off bad tissue, piecing muscle back together and repairing skin.
The aftermath...about 30 staples.
Ogden says with all she lost...her house, her belongings...she's grateful the good Lord once again made her family whole.
"Everybody's back together now and we can concentrate on putting our lives back together," Ogden said.
As for Rascal, he's expected to make a full recovery. Langford says he's one lucky kitty.
"He's a lucky cat and I can't tell you how many lives he used up but he's still got some left
Story credit: ABC 33/40
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