A cat seemingly tossed into traffic on the Golden Ears Bridge has used one of its nine lives and is recuperating at the Maple Ridge SPCA.
Jessie Anhofer said on Facebook she saw the cat running around in the middle of the bridge last Saturday trying to avoid being hit by cars. “It looks like (she) was thrown from a car or hit by a car, as she has cuts all over,” she said.
Anfoher initially drove past the animal, then got to the end of the bridge and doubled back to get the forlorn feline. She said as soon as she stopped her car, the cat came over to her crying.
“It wanted to come to me for sure. It was soaking wet.”
Anhofer runs her own pet sitting service and may adopt the cat for her mom, if no one claims her. Several people have called her saying it’s their cat.
The cat was taken to the Langley emergency shelter then transferred to the Maple Ridge SPCA.
“She’s actually doing pretty good,” said Chelsea Smith at the SPCA.
The cat, grey and about five years old, has some road rash and a slight injury to one of its paws, “but other than that, she seems to be doing really well with us.”
The cat doesn’t yet have a name because staff have put it on a four-day hold, in case its owner turns up. After that period, it will go up for adoption.
Some commenters on Facebook say they recognize the cat and others are saying the cat could have been sitting in the wheel well or engine compartment of a vehicle then fell out as it started moving across the bridge.
