Meet Fluffy the cat . She had an incredibly lucky escape after she was find bury in C. P. Snow last calendar month .

Fluffy ’s possessor get hold their outdoor African tea , frozen and stuck , outside their menage in Kalispell , Montana , on January 31 and instantly drove her to the local creature clinic . By the audio of it , they rescued her just in the nick of prison term .

fit in to veterinary surgeon , Fluffy ’s body temperature had dropped to less than 32 ° light speed ( 90 ° degree Fahrenheit ) . Indeed , she was so dusty that the thermometer could n’t record her temperature and the staff had a hard time make the IV drip . For the record , the normal temperature for a kat like Fluffy is somewhere between 37 and 39 ° hundred ( 100 and 102 ° F ) .

Andrea Dutter , the executive director of the Animal Clinic of Kalispell , say reporters they test to bring up Fluffy ’s body temperature in various dissimilar shipway , using quick water , a hairdryer , and heated towels that they rotated out .

“ And ultimately , we put her in a het dog house , ” she said , reportsThe Washington Post – which seemed to do the trick .

When the ice at last melted , the squad noticed signs of injurythat they   think prevented Fluffy from return home during the cold spell .

The full intelligence is Fluffy only had to spend one night in the animate being clinic ’s ER before returning home with her eight remaining lives entire . One week on and she ’s to the full recovered .

Fluffy was n’t the only animal to freeze duringthe polar vortexthat ingest bombastic swathe of   North America last month , cause temperatures to plunge as low as minus 40 ° C ( -40 ° F ) , Hell to literallyfreeze over , and large glob of Niagara Falls toturn to ice .

Alligatorsin North Carolina ’s   65 - Akko Shallotte River Swamp Park survived the iciness by entering a state oftorpor , positioning their consistence into an upright   position below the urine ’s aerofoil so that just their snoot poked out   the ice .

But even that , as   bizarre   as it may reckon , is not as strange asthe fixed iguanasthat rained down on Florida orthe " flash lamp frozen " turtlesthat took over New England beaches in 2018 .