They say cats have nine lives – but no one seriously expects them to come back from the dead.
Yet that is what Alfie the ginger tom appeared to have done nine months after apparently being killed by a car.
Owner Angelo Petrillo buried what he believed to be his pet’s battered body after a friend spotted it on the side of a road near his home.
The next day, however, the neighbours said the cat had remained outside all night, meowing pitifully.
Mrs Petrillo, 35, a manager for a wine company, returned to the couple’s old home a mile away – and immediately recognised the cat as Alfie.
The three-year-old had lost the collar he used to wear and had put on weight, suggesting someone else had been looking after him while he was being mistakenly mourned.
Mr Petrillo said: ‘It was just unbelievable – the cat I had buried nine months earlier, the cat we spent about a month grieving over, was back, and my wife just couldn’t believe what she was seeing.’
wait, what? the timeline here is seriously screwed up. i think maybe there was a rip in the fabric of spacetime, and that the dead cat didn’t come back to life but rather its younger self bounced forward in time to meet his owners again.
i mean really, think about the timeline here:
1. cat is hit by car.
2. the NEXT DAY the cat is seen and heard meowing.
3. ‘immediately’ as in within an instant, the wife went to the ‘old home’ a couple miles away. (they moved to a new home seemingly at the speed of light?).
4. note, this cat was year years old. when was it 3? i don’t know, perhaps after the death it was three, but it could have been much older before hand.
5. someone was caring for the cat while it was being mourned, and it gained visible weight. overnight (#2)? instantly (#3)? or over the course of months (title)? maybe over the course of years… we shall have to wait and see.
6. Mr. Petrillo buried the cat nine months earlier, mourned the cat for one month, it died yesterday while he was moving to a new home a couple miles away, and it is alive and well today.
The New Physics of String Theory involves balls of yarn and clusters of catnip.
Pet sementary comes to mind here….run
What the story said was that none months after the burial, a former neighbor reported the meowing to the owner who had moved. What wasn’t reported was why didn’t somebody check the grave for any signs of a skeleton…
JB – I don’t think that ‘sementary’ is the same thing as a sematary…
Richard, nor is none the same as nine…….wink aloud.
I miss my cat 🙁 but he was 100% dead when I buried him. So this would totally freak me out and make me jump off a bridge.