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Cat claws out of grave after being hit by car and buried

TAMPA, Fla.

Bart the cat was hit by a car, buried and seemingly crawled back from the dead.

Earlier this month, a car hit the 1 1/2-year-old cat in Tampa. Bart’s owner was so distraught, he couldn’t stand the thought of burying him, so he asked a neighbor to dig a shallow grave.

Five days later, on Jan. 21, a matted and injured Bart emerged, meowing for food.

“At first it blew me away,” said Dusty Albritton, the neighbor who buried Bart. “All I knew was this cat was dead and ‘Pet Sematary’ is real.’

Bart had a broken jaw, a ruptured eye and a torn-up face. He was dehydrated and hungry, but alive.

Owner Ellis Hutson didn’t know what to do.

“It was unbelievable,” he told The Tampa Bay Times. “I’ve never seen anything like that before.”

Hutson got in touch with the Humane Society of Tampa Bay, which through the Save-A-Pet Medical Fund will help cover the costs of Bart’s care. On Tuesday, the cat underwent surgery to remove an eye, wire his jaw shut and insert a feeding tube, which cost more than $1,000.

Pa. shop owner makes deflated chocolate football

CANONSBURG, Pa.

A Pennsylvania candy maker is getting a big kick out of the New England Patriots’ scandal over some deflated footballs.

The (Washington) Observer-Reporter reports that Bill Sarris had his Canonsburg staff make a chocolate football with a big dent in the side. It’s not for sale, but he posted it on Facebook as a joke.

It’s named the Bradie ball. That’s B-R-A-D-I-E to avoid any legal issues.

The picture’s caption says, “Net weight 13 lbs ... Oops! We meant 11.2 lbs.”

The Patriots and quarterback Tom Brady have been accused of using underinflated footballs in the AFC Championship game. They play Sunday in the Super Bowl.

Sarris won’t explain how the chocolate got its deflated appearance.

He says only, “You’ll have to ask the Patriots how they did it.”

Pet reptile not a lizard, Lithuanian student finds out

VILNIUS, Lithuania

A baby caiman has found a new home at a Lithuanian zoo after its previous owner tried to sell it online, apparently upon realizing that the pet reptile he was raising in his bathroom wasn’t a harmless lizard.

Officials at the Kaunas zoo said authorities confiscated the spectacled caiman from a student who had posted an online advertisement for a large lizard.

They said the student had kept it for several months but, stunned by how fast it was growing, decided to get rid of it. Lithuanian law prohibits raising dangerous animals at home.

Associated Press