Giggle-Blizzard may really have nine lives. The cat disappeared from his Spring Hill home Nov. 15.
Eleven days later, on Thanksgiving Day, owner Tracie Steger heard a faint meow on her front porch.
"My niece opened the door and he came hobbling in, two legs forward and then baby steps with his back legs," she said.
Giggle-Blizzard was home, but with two broken legs.
Steger has 13 pets. On the night her cat went missing, she had called for her animals to come inside. They all came, except Giggle-Blizzard.
Steger put up posters and placed an online message on Craigslist. She wandered the neighborhood with her 6-year-old nephew, Christopher Jameson, calling for Giggle-Blizzard.
After about 10 days, some bad news: A neighbor said she'd seen Giggle-Blizzard get hit by a car the previous Saturday, more than a mile from home.
Steger didn't give up hope. She and Christopher spent the afternoon looking where she was told her cat had been hit. The next day, Giggle-Blizzard arrived back home.
"I really believe if we didn't go out on Wednesday and leave our scent trail, he wouldn't have found his way home," Steger said.
Giggle-Blizzard had two severe fractures. He has had two surgeries to set the bones, both in casts.
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