Cat Found Alive 78 Days After Taiwan Earthquake

TAIPEI, Taiwan — A cat, dehydrated and barely breathing, was found trapped in a house 78 days after Taiwan’s devastating earthquake, a veterinarian said Thursday.

The animal apparently kept itself alive by eating another cat, veterinarian Chen Tao-chieh said.

It was not known how the gray and white cat, which weighed less than 4 1/2 pounds when found, kept itself from dying of dehydration.

Workers discovered the animal Wednesday in a damaged house in the central city of Taichung that had been vacated and locked up before the Sept. 21 quake that killed about 2,400 people and demolished tens of thousands of buildings.