Cat finds way home after 11 days, 2 broken legs

[December 24, 2009]  SPRING HILL, Fla. (AP) -- Down two legs, and who knows how many lives, a Florida cat missing 11 days somehow arrived home.

Tracie Steger lost hope after search parties and fliers failed to turn up her beloved Giggle-Blizzard. She winced after hearing a car had hit a kitty, and raced to scare off a vulture with a suspicious whisker in its teeth.

Neither was him.

But on Thanksgiving night, a yelp from the porch was.

A car had smashed his back legs a week ago, but Giggle-Blizzard somehow got back. He knew the area from walking unleashed with Steger's seven other cats and two dogs.

After two operations he's back in Steger's menagerie, sporting Christmas-colored splints.

It cost $3,000, but Steger can't contain her joy.

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Information from: St. Petersburg Times, http://tampabay.com/

[Associated Press]

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