In the town of Amatrice, the worst affected by the August 24 quake, firefighters rescued Pietro the cat after his owners -- who came back to retrieve some belongings -- heard him meowing weakly. Dehydrated and weak, he was taken into the care of vets.
Meanwhile in the nearby hamlet of Illica, another cat called Giorgiana was plucked from a ruined house. Her owners were killed in the quake but their daughters, who survived, asked animal welfare group Oipa to look for their three cats.
Last week firefighters pulled a golden retriever called Romeo alive from the rubble of his owners' house in the village of San Lorenzo a Flaviano, more than nine days after he was given up for dead.
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