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This tabby on the front porch of 1702 Vine St. keeps warm on cold nights with the help of a box, a blanket and a restaurant heat lamp.
  • Originally published February 8, 2010 at 6:57 p.m., updated February 9, 2010 at 11:11 a.m.

Our photography staff roams the Crossroads daily looking for the perfect image to complement stories. Sometimes this creative process generates its own story - like this one from Multimedia News Director Bill Clough.

Our photography staff roams the Crossroads daily looking for the perfect image to complement stories. Sometimes this creative process generates its own story - like this one from Multimedia News Director Bill Clough.

Every time the weather turns cold, newscasters and reporters warn the public to pay attention to their pets. They get cold, too.

Best advice: bring them inside. But for whatever reason, the pet who lives at 1702 Vine St., is an outdoor cat. But its owners are not without compassion.

When the weather gets cold, the cat sleeps on the front porch in a box stuffed with a warm blanket. Just to make sure, they have hung one of those restaurant heat lamps over the box.

It may be sleeting, raining and snowing simultaneously, but drive by at night and you're likely to see a head and two ears peering at you from the cat's private sauna.

Every time, that is, except when I tried to get a picture.

Neighbors must wonder why, every cold evening en route home from work, that car kept slowing when it passed the intersection of Vine and Brazos streets.

Finally, after an uncountable number of cold spells this winter - the tabby - no doubt with the electric bill in mind - decided to peek over his box to find out watt's up? Click.



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  • reverendmwagner reverendmwagner Report a ViolationReport a Violation Permalink  | 

    Wish there were more pet owners like this.
    I see lots of them in the winter and summer outside suffering.I would love to call animal control, but the chances of them getting adopted are very slim, Calling Animal control just puts a death sentence on the poor animals.

    February 8, 2010 at 10:07 p.m.