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Cat has 'back end almost cut off' by train - but makes miraculous surgery recovery

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Hector dragged himself 229 metres uphill to get back to his owners in North Ayrshire .

He had to have his leg and tail amputated after being hit by a train near Fairlie station.

Vet Paul Smith said he'd "never seen a cat make it home with such awful injuries" The only two options for Hector were to either put him to sleep or amputate.

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