Jelly The Cat Cheats Death

Posted by Algonkin in Animal on December 12, 2007 at 7:40 am


Jelly

This is one of the lucky cat! Nine-year-old Jelly was spotted by owner Wendy Wallis walking around with a copperhead snake wrapped around her neck and immediately called wildlife rescuers to have the snake removed.

“Both the cat and the snake seemed quite happy,” Ms Wallis said. “She didn’t show any signs of a bite last night, but this morning she was almost paralysed”.

“She is currently at the Montrose vet at the moment being pumped full of anti-venom, but the vet says she’ll recover fully.”

Ms Wallis said she snapped the picture through a glass door, but didn’t dare open the door as the cat would have walked inside.

Jelly may well be thinking “One life down, eight to go!”

Via: Mercury


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17 comments to "Jelly The Cat Cheats Death"

  1. Sid Morrison
    December 12th, 2007 at 8:21 am

    Poor kitty, but great picture. A good reason to keep the cat inside from here on out, I guess!

  2. Miss Cellania
    December 12th, 2007 at 8:26 am

    That’s what you call a nightmare. I’m glad my cats stay indoors.

  3. SenorMysterioso
    December 12th, 2007 at 1:00 pm

    I think that was a very ambitious snake with dreams of a big meal

  4. heather
    December 12th, 2007 at 2:45 pm

    My cat does that a lot, but yeesh! A copperhead?!

  5. k
    December 12th, 2007 at 2:54 pm

    she was right about not opening the door to the cat.

  6. biltmore
    December 12th, 2007 at 4:02 pm

    Oh, teh poor kitteh.

  7. StellaCadente
    December 12th, 2007 at 4:23 pm

    Wow, the cat called 911! Maybe she can teach bloggers English syntax next! (We’re overlooking the misspelling of immediately. Not as funny.)

  8. Adam Farrington
    December 12th, 2007 at 8:00 pm

    funny neck-tie

  9. Erik Giles
    December 12th, 2007 at 10:00 pm

    Maybe the snake was attracted to the warmth of the cat? Was it a cold night?

    I wonder if letting the cat indoors would allow the snake to experience a warmer environment and leave the cat? Just a thought.

  10. michael vickery
    December 16th, 2007 at 12:57 am

    Yeah, that’d be great, a poisonous snake free in the house.

  11. bobby r.
    December 15th, 2008 at 4:05 pm

    First of all, Stella, you are clearly wrong and this is obvious to all in attendance. Second, please don’t quit your day job, the internet does not need any more idiots who clearly have nothing more important going on in their lives than to come and complain about ridiculous things on a random site. Fuck, get over yourself.

    And to Erik, letting a poisonous snake into your house is not a good idea.

  12. Philip
    January 28th, 2009 at 4:56 pm

    My cat Kage (kah gay) kills snakes all the time. There were several in our basement (came up through the sump pump, I think…). One was about 1/3 her weight (she’s small). I was sure impressed but my wife is deathly afraid of snakes so we praise her at the top of the basement stairs and she doesn’t bring them any further. None have ever been poisonous though.

    By the way she is, has always been and will always be an indoor cat.

    Hope your cat has recovered!

  13. Warren
    April 21st, 2009 at 5:19 am

    though i don’t know the identity of the snake, i can tell you it is not a copperhead, it is a nonpoisonous snake.

  14. Chuck B
    May 1st, 2009 at 10:38 pm

    Hate to burst your bubble sir but that is a southern copperhead. And one lucky feline.

  15. D. C.
    May 10th, 2009 at 6:29 pm

    It’s “antivenin” not anti-venom

  16. talulla
    June 6th, 2009 at 10:01 am

    That’s one of the reasons I could never live in a country that had deadly snakes. The stories you are telling of snakes in basements are just nightmarish.
    I live in England, by the way and my heart goes out to anyone with a phobia about snakes.

  17. Anna Storer
    June 19th, 2009 at 5:35 pm

    Now that’s one lucky pussy or as we Aussie’s would say ‘lucky duckie’.


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