Free cat with every DVD

[Gob]

A pet cat has survived eight days in the post, trapped in a box of DVDs.



Cupcake climbed into the parcel before it was taped up and sent 250 miles from Cornwall to West Sussex - leaving her owner "looking everywhere" for her.

The pair were reunited after the Siamese cat was unwrapped in Worthing and had her microchip scanned.

Owner Julie Baggott said it was "a miracle" her pet survived the jaunt, which vets said left her dehydrated and scared but otherwise unhurt.

"When I realised she was missing, it was the most horrible, scary feeling. We looked everywhere for her," she said.

"I feel terrible about what's happened, because I put everything in the box and sealed it straight away so I don't how she managed to get in there."

Ms Baggott, from Falmouth, said it was a "pretty big box" but thankfully Cupcake had a "really laid-back personality".

She said she thought Cupcake, an indoor cat, had managed to get out of the house.

"We made posters and walked miles across fields, forests and woods looking for her.

"All the neighbours got involved and people were spreading the word around."

Ms Baggott said she couldn't believe it when her family received a phone call to say Cupcake had been found.

"It was a miracle because she was alive and she's managed to survive that awful ordeal."

Vet Ben Colwell, from Grove Lodge Veterinary Hospital, said: "She was quite dehydrated, obviously really quite scared, quite nervous, but she's done really, really well.

"She's responded to fluids really well. Luckily, she was microchipped."

The vet's blog said staff scanned the "gorgeous girl" when she arrived and added: "Everyone was delighted and even more so when we found that the contact details were up to date and we were able to contact her owners straight away."

[Long Run]

First time it went postal without doing the crazy cat thing.

[MG McAnick]

Makes me wonder how badly that cat wanted to escape that household.

Several years ago my daughter found a cat at the apartment complex where she lived. She didn't have a good way to take care of it there, so she brought it "home" to Mrs Mc and I. She made signs and put them up around the complex and surrounding neighborhood. A couple of days later she got a call from the cat's family, which included two young children. I took the cat to their apartment in a cat carrier. When I opened the carrier's mesh door, the cat wouldn't come out. When I upended the carrier on the floor, and picked it up off of the cat, it looked up at me like "WHY THE HECK DID YOU BRING ME BACK HERE". Then it RAN under the bed in the parent's bedroom. I suspect it had spent a lot of time under that bed. I almost felt bad for the cat.

Not my cat carrier: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/garynettle ... arrier.htm

Then there was Henry "Box" Brown:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Box_Brown

Seriously, cats have a propensity to jump into boxes or bags that might seem to offer the security of a "den". I've seen that behavior many times, in fact almost every time a new box appears, at my house.

[MajGenl.Meade]

I thought it was a free cat with every scanner?

[Bicycle Bill]

.... I found your cat.



-"BB"-

[MG McAnick]

Our local humane society puts a micro chip in every cat and dog it finds a "forever home" for. They also spay and neuter all of them. Cats over nine months old are free. So are kittens, when they have too many in the spring. Kittens are usually $99. We have two, a mother and son, from there.

[rubato]

8 isn't enough for cats. Everyone knows it's 9.


Foolish people.


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