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Teacher thaws a frozen cat and names her Elsa

It had been below zero for weeks when a seventh grade science teacher stepped onto his porch and found an orange tabby lying there, one paw twitching and not much else. more

Cold like that is dangerous for a cat, fur coat or not. The body pulls blood away from the paws and ears to keep the core warm, which is how frostbite starts, and how a cat ends up on a stranger's porch unable to get up. He seemed to know exactly what to do, maybe because he teaches science to seventh graders.

He carried her inside and ran a warm bath. She barely moved in the water, but then her eyes opened, and that was enough to get his hopes up. Out of the bath he wrapped her in warm blankets and kept talking to her. "You're getting there, buddy," he tells her. "You're getting warmer."

The talking worked. She answered him with a meow, then another, and he kept at it. As she warmed through she looked more and more like an ordinary cat, and he set a mug of milk in front of her.

Six hours after he found her, the cat was up on her feet and exploring the house. She had a name, too, and the teacher went with the one sitting right in front of him. A cat who comes in off a frozen porch is Elsa, after the Disney movie "Frozen."

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It had been below zero for weeks when a seventh grade science teacher stepped onto his porch and found an orange tabby lying there, one paw twitching and not much else.

"Are you feeling better?" he asks her. "Elsa, I love you." She makes a small noise, then sneezes, and he keeps cheering her on. Her porch days are over.

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