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Conference misery::feline_v1

Title:	Meower Power is Valuing Differences
Notice:	FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY
Moderator:	MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO

Created:	Sun Feb 09 1986
Last Modified:	Tue Jan 11 1994
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5089
Total number of notes:	60366

3804.0. "Kitty story with a happy ending" by JJLIET::JUDY (I got a new attitude) Tue Jul 17 1990 16:02

    
    This was sent to me by a friend in Australia.  I have no idea what
    paper is was from.
    
    "The saga of the British lbakc cat which survived six weeks locked
    inside an Adelaide-bound shipping container has ended happily.
    
    The owner of the Mercedes Benz which shared the container with the
    miracle moggy from Lond yesterday decided to give the feline stowaway
    a home.
    
    Mr. Marla Skartvedt said she would take the female cat, named, of
    course, Mercedes, to Darwin after it ends another 226 days in
    quarantine.
    
    A spokesperson for the South Australian Department of Agriculture
    said the quarantine costs of $1623 would be met my Mrs. Skartvedt,
    the SA Animal Welfare League, the manufacturers of a cat food,
    and the company which owns the 'overloaded' shipping container.
    
    There would also be a special "Mercedes Fund" for public donations.
    
    "Any residuals will go to cat charities" she said.
    
    Mercedes was reported to be healthy and happy at the Torrens Island
    quarantine center."
    				AAP
    
    ****
    I was told the details of the story a while back but don't remember
    them clearly.  I think this poor creature was in the car for 6+
    weeks or something like that.  The car was being shipped from
    England to Australia by ship.
    
    	JJ

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
3804.1		JJLIET::JUDY	I got a new attitude	`Tue Jul 17 1990 16:03`	3
	Umm...lback is supposed to be black....eesh!
3804.2	Other "lucky" cats....	MCIS5::MCDONOUGH		`Wed Jul 18 1990 08:48`	21
	A fairly similar incident happened here in New England a few years ago...seems a cat had gotten into a seaborne container and had her kittens, and was shipped to the U.S... When they unpacked the container in Boston, she was discovered..alive with two of the four kittens still alive as well. Unfortunately, she wasn't able to sustain enough bodyweight to provide sufficient milk for all four, so two had perished on the journey. About 300 people stepped forward as volunteer adopters for the trio of travelers... Also, in the same vein, a cat was discovered in the landing gear well of a B.O.A.C. jet that had landed at Logan Airport in Boston...she was a little bit cold from the altitude and not in the best of spirits (understandably) but in remarkably good shape for the ordeal she'd gone through. Seems she must have climbed in the gear well at Heathrow and got trapped...luckily in some spot where she wasn't crushed by the landing gear when it retracted and it was also a lucky place since she didn't fall out when the gear was lowered on the approach to Logan... JMcD
3804.3		SOKO::ZICKEFOOSE	LENNICE	`Wed Jul 18 1990 16:00`	3
	I'd sure rather be in a shipping container than on the landing gear of a plane. Sheesh. I'm really surprised she didn't die of fright, if nothing else.
3804.4	Los 4 of 'em on THAT trip!!	MCIS5::MCDONOUGH		`Wed Jul 18 1990 17:38`	6
	Re .2 Now that you mention it, they DID report that she had only 5 of her "9-lives" left.... JM
3804.5		CRUISE::NDC	Putiput Scottish Folds - DTN: 297-2313	`Thu Jul 19 1990 08:06`	1
	The will to survive is an amazing thing.
3804.6	Under car..lost ear	FLOWER::PIERCE		`Mon Jul 23 1990 16:12`	9
	My old cat "Ceaser" from years ago, used to get under the car in the winter (lke alot do) and my farther drove from Hudson Ma to NewtonMa with Ceaser under the hood. it is distance of 30mi and her ear was chewed off but she was fine and she lived for another 5yrs after that Unreal Louisa, Chammie, Carmel, Nephra (ps Nephra is doing great)