Only 8 lives left!
This little calico has quite a tale to tell her cat friends. She apparently stowed away on a power boat in Orange County, California. The boat left its dock on Friday afternoon, with the cat having hidden itself in the forward compartment.
That weekend, the boat struck a sandbar and sank to the bottom of Lake Havasu. The humans aboard were able to swim to safety, but the boat remained at the bottom of the lake for over an hour before a rescue team could drag it out onto the shore.
When they hauled it out, salvage crews found a surprise waiting for them in the forward compartment: a terrified cat who was lucky enough to have found an air pocket.
The owner of the boat says it's not his cat, and he has never seen it before. The cat does not have a microchip, so the local animal shelter is not able to locate its owner. If you live in Orange County and you are missing a calico, please call the shelter! If her owner isn't found, this lucky kitty (who the shelter workers have named River) will be adopted out to a good home. And hopefully from this point forward, she will stick to dry land!