Pet cat recovering one week after it was missing, found injured on I-215
Oct 20, 2024, 7:00 PM
Ashley Lockwood isn't sure how her pet cat, Rocky, ended up in the middle of I-215, but she is happy to have him home. (Ashley Lockwood)
(Ashley Lockwood)
WEST JORDAN — A family is grateful their pet cat is safe after a bystander found it lying on the shoulder of Interstate 215 last week.
“He is very sweet, very cuddly,” said Ashley Lockwood about her sphynx cat Rocky.
Rocky has been with Lockwood and her family since 2013.
“He’s definitely silly. He loves to purr. He talks a lot,” she said.
On Oct. 8, Lockwood said she noticed his food had not been touched or had heard him purr at all that day. Lockwood said her family searched for Rocky and continued to so do for several days.
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“It was definitely nerve-racking. Sphynx cats are very environmentally sensitive,” she said. So, being outside at night is a little too much for him to handle.”
On Oct. 12, Lockwood said a friend had found a post on Reddit with a photo of a sphynx cat on I-215 indicating that it had fallen or was tossed out of a window.
Uncertainty over what took place
How exactly the cat ended up there is still a mystery.
“It’s hard not having any hard evidence, no dashcam or any, you know, footage or anything that’s going to tell us that this is exactly what happened to him,” Lockwood said.
Rocky was taken to a vet in Cottonwood Heights who checked his microchip and confirmed it was him.
“The vet was saying that his bruises were so bad and so quickly forming that it was apparent that he had fallen from a height out of a vehicle,” Lockwood said.
Rocky had lacerations on his behind and his hip and had his pads wrapped up. Thankfully, Rocky had no internal bleeding or broken bones.
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