<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of KTIV (Sioux City, Iowa) at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">(Video</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://tinyurl.com/cpkd53p">http://tinyurl.com/cpkd53p</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">--------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><h3 class="" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; clear: both; "><font size="3"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Former Siouxlander flies across the country for rescued cat</span></font></h3></div><span id="WNStoryDateline" style="display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KTIV) -</span></span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You may have a special place in your heart for animals. You might even have adopted a one in need from a shelter, but would you fly across country for it?</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Cindy Rarrat remembers seeing this little cat, brought to animal control in late December. It had been frozen to a garbage can.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"When he first came in, it was severely emaciated, thin, dehydrated and it was taking its last gasps of air," said Rarrat, owner/operator of the Siouxland Animal Shelter & Rescue.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After volunteer Kylie Butler treated him with a heating pad, and gave him some food. That cat, now called Rocky Balboa, started to show signs of life.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"About three hours after I did everything, he actually came back to life as wild as can be. He wouldn't even let me touch him," said Butler.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">With a slight case of frostbite, and some other minor physical ailments, Rocky continues to fight back.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Enter Gail Bancroft, a former Siouxlander, who now lives in Bethesda, Md. She says she's always had a special place in her heart, and her home, for animals like Rocky.</span></div><div><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"He's a cat who's in need. He probably needs a little bit of rehabilitation. That's what we like to do," said Bancroft.</span></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Last year, she adopted a cat named Jonas, who was frozen to a manhole cover in Sioux City and lost a leg. He, too, was nursed back to health and went home with her to Maryland.</span></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"When you rehabilitate an animal, they're so grateful and they're so loving, and they give more back than they take," said Bancroft.</span></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For now, Rocky loves the Pine-Sol box that's inside of his cage. He's still working to build up some strength in his legs, before he can run around full time. In due time, Bancroft says, Rocky will be running and playing all over her house, just like Jonas.</span></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"He'll be by himself in a room with a kitty box and food and everything for a period of time and then, he'll be integrated in with the other cats," said Gail.</span></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Just a little bit of adjustment, for a cat in need getting a new lease on life.</span></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto;margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; "><span style="text-align: center; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This is the second rescued cat Gail Bancroft has adopted from Siouxland.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto;margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; "><img src="cid:CAC1471B-80F5-42BA-8D21-ACBA725AC5B6" alt="21525628_BG1.jpg" id="CAC1471B-80F5-42BA-8D21-ACBA725AC5B6" width="420" height="236"></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">--------------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div></div></div></body></html>