We're all familiar with the image of a firefighter getting a stuck cat out of a tall tree, but Rockford firefighters had a different scenario to deal with Monday.
Whenever a huge snowfall hits anywhere, we members of the media seem only to focus on the impact to human beings. Call it a built-in bias (being humans ourselves, mostly), but we choose to ignore how our four-legged housemates might feel about the aftermath of a big weather event...
Have you read the Stephen King novel "Pet Semetary"? Or have you seen the movie of the same name? Then you have a good idea about how this story will play out.
In a narrative straight out of that book, a cat in Florida that was hit by a car and then buried has clawed his way back from the underground...