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Roon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-18-07 06:01 PM
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Cat headed back to owner after three weeks stuck on plane
DENVER – United Airlines says a cat, found Wednesday in Denver, spent three weeks on an airplane.

Andrea Barlow, Pumpkin’s owner, tells 9NEWS she flew from Manchester, England, to Munich, Germany, and finally to Washington, D.C., December 28.

Barlow says the 12-year-old cat was lost while she transferring planes in Munich. When Barlow went to retrieve the carrier in Munich, Pumpkin’s crate was broken and empty. United searched for the cat but couldn’t find her.

Wednesday, United Cargo employees found the cat in Denver and took her to the Alameda East Veterinary Clinic to get checked out.
http://www.9news.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=63336
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-18-07 06:08 PM
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1. Poor kitty!
I'm glad she's ok. I hope they don't send Ms Barlow a bill for the vet expenses.
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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-18-07 06:13 PM
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2. Damn.
How did that cat survive? And how can you not find a cat in the cargo hold of a plane? It's not that damned big!

I'm very glad that this cat survived and seems to be doing well.

I'll bet there will be a lawsuit. There's no reasonable explanation for why a pet crate should shatter while on the plane.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-18-07 06:21 PM
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4. my cat very effectively hid from me for some time in a tiny closet
Edited on Thu Jan-18-07 06:23 PM by Skittles
I searched three times in there before I found him - if cats want to hide, they are damn good at it :o

By the way, he was hiding because he had correctly deduced from my wheedling tone I was going to give him his daily pill (a ten day antibiotic thing)
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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-18-07 06:27 PM
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9. Does your closet get completely empied out
every few hours, like the cargo hold of a plane? :shrug:

Yes, cats are very good at hiding, but finding a cat in a small empty room should be pretty easy.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-19-07 02:24 AM
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16. it tells me they are NOT getting emptied
Edited on Fri Jan-19-07 03:21 AM by Skittles
makes ya wonder doesn't it? A cat is bigger than say, a mouse.
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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-19-07 08:38 AM
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20. Good point.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-18-07 06:19 PM
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3. I thought that vet clinic sounded familiar
Edited on Thu Jan-18-07 06:19 PM by Skittles
it's the location of the show Emergency Vets on Animal Planet :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alameda_East_Veterinary_Hospital
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Roon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-18-07 06:22 PM
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5. I told my vet that I can't watch emergency vets on TV
because it's too heartbreaking. This vet told me she can't watch it either!! and she's a VET!!
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-18-07 06:32 PM
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13. I stopped watching it for the same reason
I think the hardest shows to watch were the ones where someone took their pet in for something and they thought it would be something fairly routine, fixable - but they'd receive a diagnosis so devastating the vet would recommend euthanasia in due time - watching their faces go from interested/concerned to completely heartbroken over the course of a few minutes was just too much to bear. :(
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Hav Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-19-07 06:26 AM
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18. .
Yeah, pets become a very dear part of a family. One of the saddest things I saw myself was at the vet, a little girl crying while carrying away her dead turtle. It seemed as if she and her mother had the worst day of their life.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-19-07 10:03 AM
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21. It surprised me how much it affected the vets themselves
I remember one vet looking at a sonogram and shaking his head - he said, I have to go out there and tell them their pet is dying. :(
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JackBeck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-18-07 06:24 PM
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6. Glad kitty's headed home.
I would have been devastated if that happened to me.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-18-07 06:26 PM
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7. What is with cats lately? First Hercules, now Pumpkin.
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-18-07 06:26 PM
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8. Aw, poor Pumpkin.
My husband and I drove 3,000 miles from DC to Portland with our two kitties in the back of the car. I couldn't stand the thought of putting them on a plane.
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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-18-07 06:29 PM
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11. I only moved 600 miles
and I did the same thing. I had one cat at that point, and he traveled next to me the entire way.
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-18-07 06:31 PM
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12. We made a "kitty condo" for the back seat so they'd
be able to move around and we wouldn't have to worry about opening the door and having them dash out at a rest stop in Oklahoma or something.
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TheBaldyMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-18-07 06:27 PM
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10. Do it's owners get its air miles?
Edited on Thu Jan-18-07 06:29 PM by TheBaldyMan
I think Pumkin deserves a holiday after that ordeal, Business class to the Seychelles.
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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-18-07 06:36 PM
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14. Oh, that's it, I am never, ever putting my cats in the cargo hold.
I can't IMAGINE what the owner must have felt like when she went to get the carrier and there was no cat in it!
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VenusRising Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-18-07 06:39 PM
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15. I'm glad she got her kitty back.
I would be sick if something happened to my cat in a move. Mine went missing for a week once and I was so pathetic. I was playing with his laser pointer by myself hoping he would jump out and play with it. I was like a kid at Christmas when he showed up on our back patio at 2am.
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regnaD kciN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-19-07 06:06 AM
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17. I guess someone has to say it...
"I just want to get this m*th*rf*ck*n' cat off this m*th*rf*ck*n' plane!"

:evilgrin:

I'm so glad Pumpkin was found safely, but that line was too good to pass up.
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-19-07 07:41 AM
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19. alameda east veterinary clinic --
made famous by animal planet!
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