Honorary Cat Mayor of Alaska Town Slow to Heal

[TexasTowelie]

The popular and oh so social feline mayor of an Alaska town is limited to a life of solitary confinement these days as he slowly recovers from severe wounds sustained in a vicious attack by a loose dog.

Before the attack, Stubbs, the honorary mayor of Talkeetna, had free reign of the quirky town that elected him in a write-in campaign 15 years ago. He greeted visitors to his home at Nagley's General Store and enjoyed his wine glass of catnip-spiked water at the next-door bar in the community of 900.

"He's not walking very well," Nagley's assistant manager Skye Farrar said Tuesday. "He's tired and he's weak."

The 16-year-old orange cat must be kept quiet so he can mend from injuries that included a fractured sternum, punctured lung and a deep gash on his side.

More at http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/honorary-cat-mayor-alaska-town-slow-heal-20447181 .

Related thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018474886

[Blue_In_AK]

1. He's a pretty old cat to have suffered that trauma.

I hope he makes a full recovery.