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Cat Rescued From Sunken Boat At Bottom Of Lake Havasu

AKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. (AP) — A trapped, hungry, wet and scared cat is now safe after it was found tucked away in a boat that had sank to the bottom of Lake Havasu.

Today's News-Herald reports the brown-and-black American shorthair breed was found when the boat was brought ashore by Dive Time Recovery owner John Zucalla.

It's unclear who the cat belongs to, if anyone, and Western Arizona Humane Society workers named the cat River.

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Zucalla says River had been in the water for at least an hour and was alive, though frightened, when she was spotted in a front storage compartment.

He said the cat must have stowed away sometime before boat owner Genaro Rudaldava left Orange County, California.

Rudaldava said River wasn't his cat. If owners don't step forward this week, River will be eligible for adoption.

Closer to home, in March 2014, a 12-foot trailer had just been dropped off the Camping World in Roseville. And when workers went to do their routine maintenance, they were shocked about what they found on the roof: Max the Cat.

Max sneaked onto the top of the trailer at its owners' home in Plymouth and somehow held on during the 60 mile trek down the highway to Roseville.

"[He] was wedged behind an air conditioner and had a satellite dome in front of it, so that kind of gave him some protection there. So it's sitting there, looking terrified and mad at the world," said Andrew Weston a manager at Camping World.

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