Offbeat | Bart the cat hit by car, buried and then crawls from grave

Bart the cat was hit by a car, buried and crawled back from the dead — literally.
Earlier this month, a car hit the 1 ½-year-old cat in Tampa, Florida. Bart’s owner was so distraught, he couldn’t stand the thought of burying him, so he asked neighbor to dig a shallow grave.
Five days later, on Jan. 21, a matted and injured Bart emerged, meowing for food.
“At first it blew me away,” said Dusty Albritton, the neighbor who buried Bart. “All I knew was this cat was dead and ‘Pet Sematary’ is real.’
Bart had a broken jaw, a ruptured eye and a torn-up face. He was dehydrated and hungry, but alive.
Owner Ellis Hutson didn’t know what to do.
“It was unbelievable,” he told The Tampa Bay Times (bit.ly/1y4JxZZ). “I’ve never seen anything like that before.”
Hutson got in touch with the Humane Society of Tampa Bay, which through the Save-A-Pet Medical Fund will help cover the costs of Bart’s care. On Tuesday, the cat underwent surgery to remove an eye, wire his jaw shut and insert a feeding tube, which cost more than USD1,000. AP