Cat Lost Since Christmas Found Clinging to Massachusetts Highway Girder

CHARLESTOWN, MA — This week, we've got a Christmas tale of nine lives courtesy The Boston Globe.

The paper ran a story this week about a cat that slipped out of a moving car as a passenger opened and closed a rattling door while speeding down I-93. Unbeknownst to the driver at the time, Juno the cat had slipped out of her carrier. When she tumbled onto the highway, she might easily have been gone for good.

Still, the paper reports, owner Erin McCutcheon and her boyfriend searched for days.

That was Christmas Day.

On Wednesday, city electrical workers on site spotted a gray cat "crouched and hiding 80 feet up in the air on a steel girder that runs under the highway in Charlestown," according to the Globe.

McCutcheon, in a Facebook post, said that by complete luck, one of the workers was parked directly next to one of her "missing cat" posters.

"Initially she was too scared to come near them, but they were able to lure her out with some cans of cat food, and then get her down from the highway," McCutcheon wrote. "We are so incredibly overwhelmed with happiness that she has been found, and with gratitude for (Local 103 Electrician) Jay (Frasier) and his co-workers for rescuing her. As well as everyone else who has given their time, assistance, and moral support to keep us going. I knew if any cat could survive such a horrible ordeal, it would be Juno."

The workers are now being hailed as heroes.

Read the rest of the miraculous tale over on The Boston Globe's site, here.

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