Kentucky Cat Miraculously Found Alive Under Rubble 9 Days After Deadly Tornado Hit Town

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Kentucky Cat Miraculously Found Alive Under Rubble 9 Days After Deadly Tornado Hit Town "If cats actually have nine lives, he probably used up about eight of them in that nine-day period,"

said relieved owner Hoot Gibson

ByNatasha DadoPublished on December 23, 2021 09:34AM EST Credit : Sonny "Hoot" Gibson via AP Nine days after a deadly tornado ripped through Mayfield, Kentucky, a cat was miraculously found

alive beneath the rubble.

On Sunday, Madix the cat was found by his owner Sonny "Hoot" Gibson, whose three-story office building in downtown Mayfield was destroyed by the tornado, the Associated Press reported.

While Gibson and his family assisted with cleanup after the deadly storm, they gave up hope of finding the black office cat after a few days, per WTVF. Over the weekend, the rental business

owner was back at the building when he heard a faint meow.

"Out of the blue, I heard that meow. When I heard it, and I said his name, and I heard it faintly again, I knew it was him," he told the news channel. "My knees got so weak, my chest almost

got tight. I thought, 'Oh my gosh, I'm going to have a heart attack here.' I was blown away."

Remembering Victims of Deadly Tornado Outbreak: Navy Veteran, 'Loving' Grandma of 4 and More Teaming up with two employees to sift through the wreckage, the trio found the cat, uninjured, in

a pocket under the rocks. Gibson took Madix home, where he quickly ate "three bowls of food and drank a whole bowl of water," per WTVF. A vet gave Madix a clean bill of health, and the

miraculous cat is settling into his new life as a house cat, the Associated Press reported.

Brett Carlsen/Getty Images "It was just an incredible feeling to put him in my arms," Gibson told the outlet. "If cats actually have nine lives, he probably used up about eight of them in

that nine-day period."

Ky. Candle Workers Sue Factory, Claiming They Couldn't Leave Before Deadly Tornado A severe storm system on Dec. 10 took a devastating toll on parts of the South and Midwest. In addition to

Mayfield, tornadoes hit other parts of Kentucky.

The tornado outbreak impacted six states — including Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri, Mississippi and Tennessee — and tragically killed at least 89 people, 77 of whom were in Kentucky, making

it the state's deadliest storm ever.

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