Written by Tyler Hatfield
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PORT SALERNO, Fla. (WPTV) — Many families are struggling to find pets that escaped their homes in the wake of the tornadoes that hit our area last week.
Among them is a woman who thought she had lost her three cats. But Matty Gordon recently heard some good news.
Gordon’s home in Port Salerno suffered hundreds of damage in the tornado outbreak, and her cats went missing.
Two days after the storm, two neighbors went searching, lifted Gordon’s bed and found him hiding underneath.
She said she was relieved that the three kittens were safe in their temporary home in a local hotel room.
“I was so worried about them,” Gordon said. “They were worried that they were hurt, but they also had no food.”
She said her cats Annie, Susie and Mooch ran under her bed for cover when the tornado hit last Wednesday.
“I was devastated. I just kept saying, ‘My cat, my cat.’ I have to pick up the cat,” Gordon said.
But even after being missing for two days, hopes were not dashed.
“Two of my neighbors, two girls, came up to me and said, ‘Come on, let me pick up your cat,'” Gordon said. “Then they came in and one person lifted the bed and the other person climbed under the bed.”
Her three cats are now safe.
“I’ve been a widow for 29 years, and cats are almost like…service animals to me,” Gordon said. “They are everything to me.”
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