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Story of a scrappy Halifax cat who survived wildfire featured in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Best Cat Ever book
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Several of those pets didn’t have the happy ending George got, and 151 families returned to homes that had been completely destroyed.
We joked that we wished he had a GoPro on just to know where he would have ended up in those 10 days.
The U.S.-based book series has sold over 100 million copies in the U.S.
and Canada with 400 titles since it launched in 1993.
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Story of a scrappy Halifax cat who survived wildfire featured in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Best Cat Ever book
Returning scratched up and thin, we’ll never truly know all of George’s adventures in the woods
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By Jen Taplin
Published Nov 03, 2026
Kristen Herrington and her cat George. Her story from the 2023 Hammonds Plains and Upper Tantallon wildfire are featured in the book Chicken Soup for the Soul: Best Cat Ever that was released on Oct. 27.…
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