Blaze the Cat Survives Mobile Home Fire

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — By all respects, Blaze the cat should not be alive.

When Sacramento County Animal Services officer Dawn Fisher found Blaze after he escaped a mobile home fire, she scooped him up and brought him to the shelter.

"I thought for sure he wasn't going to make it," she said. "[He was] charred all over and just laying there trembling in pain."

And if that wasn't tough enough, Blaze also lost his owner.

"The owner surrendered it because they had no money to tackle any medical issues," said animal services director David Dickinson. "They had just lost everything they had."

At times, the staff debated whether the humane thing to do would be to put Blaze down. But he kept clawing his way back to health, and into the staff's hearts.

"After surgery, where an animal would try to rip off his cone or destroy his own feet because of the bandages, he would just wake up and he would just start eating, and he would start purring," said Diane Fabretti with animal control.

Blaze still has wounds and scratches, but he's looking a lot better than he did five weeks ago.

"He's a pretty cool cat," Fisher said. "Very sweet, very loving."

And with some love and attention, people here predict he will just blaze through the final steps of recovery and purr his way into a new home in no time.

"He must have nine lives and he did something right," Fabretti said.

Blaze will probably be up for adoption about a month from now.