Cat Rescued From Minnesota Rest Stop Nearly 2 Years Ago Now A Model For Target

By Esme Murphy, CBS Minnesota

March 19, 2024

MINNEAPOLIS — From homelessness and near death, to being a model for one of the biggest retailers in the world, this is the amazing story of Hercules the cat.

The story starts in June 2022 when bystanders called for help after spotting a car jammed with cats at a Chisago County rest stop. The temperature was 94 degrees. The sheriff's department and Animal Humane Society took 47 cats to vets and shelters.

But one — now named Hercules — escaped. Volunteers from Tuff Start Rescue found him a month later, lying motionless, near death, his fur drenched in urine.

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