<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of <i>The Sun</i> (London, England) at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></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/cfahsev">http://tinyurl.com/cfahsev</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><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "></p><h1 class="large " style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 20px; border: 0px; font-size: 50px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; -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); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; ">Soggy moggy survives full cycle in washing machine</h1><p></p><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A KITTEN has amazingly survived a full 30-minute cycle in a washing machine.</span></p><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Eight-week-old Gollum is thought to have hidden in a pile of laundry to escape the noise of owner Lauren Gavin hoovering.</span></p><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Lauren, 22, then tipped the load into the washing machine and put it on a full colour wash without spotting her inside.</span></p><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When she opened the washing machine half-an-hour later Gollum fell out unconscious.</span></p><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Horrified Lauren, of Larkfield, Kent, said: “When I saw her I was devastated. She was meowing so faintly I could barely hear it, and she was hardly breathing. It was just so unexpected.</span></p><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Lauren rushed the tortoiseshell to a nearby vets' clinic.</span></p><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Gollum was so cold and had so much fluid around her lungs that it took an hour to raise her temperature.</span></p><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But after being fitted with a drip the wet pet eventually came to and returned home the same night.</span></p><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Lauren added: “She is practically back to her normal self.</span></p><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I’m so grateful to the vets for saving her life.”</span></p></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Verity Page, practice manager at Sandhole Vets, said: “She is an amazing little kitten. She is like a miracle case. We are amazed she survived.”</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);">--------------------</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="text-align: center; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Spin kitty ... Gollum with owner Lauren Gavin.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><img src="cid:CA407260-1104-4732-90ED-104AB91A2F34" alt="Cat-in-washing-mac_1729940a.jpg" id="CA407260-1104-4732-90ED-104AB91A2F34" width="620" height="413"></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">-------------------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya at the Wingding, 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> </div></div></div></div></body></html>