Loser News

A senior cat is miraculously alive after her owners fell nearly 400-feet from a Bryce Canyon cliff.

Best Friends Animal Society said the cat, a 12-year-old tabby named Mirage, was found next to the bodies of Matthew Nannen, 45, and Bailee Crane, 58 who had been her owners for 6 years.

Mirage appeared to be in relatively good condition. According to the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office, Nannen and Crane fell to their deaths Tuesday after going over the railing at Bryce Canyon’s Inspiration Point.

Best Friends was contacted by the sheriff’s office and transported Mirage nearly 70 miles to their sanctuary in Kanab, where staff said Mirage was alert, friendly, and in possession of several of her owners’ credit cards.

In 2019 news, Lexy, a six year-old feline that escaped an explosion at a downtown Edmonton apartment, is proving that some cats really do have nine lives.

Edmonton Fire Rescue Services said a blaze broke out shortly before 2 p.m. Thursday at the Hardwood Plaza apartment on Jasper Avenue and 110 Street. 

Bystanders shared a video which shows the house cat jumping from a fifth-floor balcony, where a man was blown out of the apartment just feet behind her. The building’s property manager said the cat is remarkably ok, other than a few singed whiskers.

The Cat’s owner since 2015, Merv Noblestein (pictured left with Lexy) was pronounced dead at the scene having sustained severe burns and plummeting some 75 feet before impacting with a parked Cadillac Escalade.

Rescue workers say the cat was found hiding under a dumpster in the adjacent alley next to a pile of the deceased’s insurance paperwork.

In 2015 news, a two year-old cat named Gertrude survived a collision with a beauty salon, which killed Gladys Bennet, the cat’s 75 year-old owner.

Witnesses say the vehicle suddenly veered off of the road, crossed a small parking lot, and impacted with the structure.
The deceased, pictured right with the fortunate feline, was reportedly driving home from her attorney’s office where she had just changed her will, making Gertrude her sole beneficiary.