Bart, or “zombie cat” as the cat was nicked on social media, was discovered “unresponsive” by his owner lying in a pool of blood. His body was cold and his face was severely disfigured. “If we’d seen that cat on the road, we’d assumed he was dead,” Nash McCuthchen with the Humane Society told CNN. Bart’s owner, Ellis Hutson, along with the help of a neighbor, buried his beloved pet in his yard.
Five days later, a different neighbor found Bart walking in her yard, after he seemingly clawed his way out of the grave. The neighbor returned the cat to Hutson, who called the Humane Society for help.
Bart was in bad shape, McCutchen said, with maggots covering open wounds on his body, and he had difficulty walking. The cat was dehydrated, his left eye ruined. But remarkably, McCutchen said, the kitty had no internal injuries, making the Humane Society able to treat him. Bart had surgery to remove his left eye and wire his jaw shut. “He was a little fighter,” McCutchen said. Despite all the trauma of getting hit by a car, being presumed dead and buried alive, McCutchen said Bart was a very friendly and affectionate cat.
There's no word on when Bart finally used up that tenth life...
in parts of Europe, I've seen that people still employ maggots on open wounds to remove necrotic tissue and aid in wound healing and closure with minimal to no scarring
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