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If I recall correctly, The Lazarus Cat was an unfortunate stray who'd taken refuge and sought warmth a top of a car's air filter cover. When the owner of the car started it up next, poor Lazarus got a scare and was caught in the fan shroud and horribly mangled. The car's owner heard a terrible wailing and grinding, discovered the cat which he assumed to be dead and burried it in his own yard. Three days later the man noticed a somewhat familiar but muddied and bloodied cat hanging about his yard's fence but couldn't quite place it. More days passed and the dirty, mangled misfit kept lurking about with a piece of intestine dragging alongside him so the man captured the cat and had a veternarian surgery him up. It was indeed the very same cat who had been buried but still alive and had dug itself out of the grave. Henceforth the animal was named, The Lazarus Cat.
There was an occurance a few years later that the man's home was broken into and not a thing was taken except The Lazarus Cat. The man was furious, suspected a particular acquaintance and put word out in his neighborhood haunts that he had cleaned and loaded his gun to find the thief. He made it clear all would be forgiven if only The Lazarus Cat was returned unharmed. Only a few nights passed until the man came home to find it had been broken into, again but this time, The Lazarus Cat was there, returned and un harmed.
Lesson:
If you mangle something and don't think you can save it then by all means, bury it with decency. If that thing rises and follows you then it's yours, don't run it off because it's become yours for a reason. Think about it, do you have a Lazarus Cat?
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