Missing U.S. Cat Found in France (True Story!!)

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Missing U.S. Cat Found in France (True Story!!)

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Grizabella

The Glamour Cat

Purred: Fri Oct 28, '05 8:26am PST


	What an amazing story this is! I hope she gets home soon! =^.^= Missing U.S. cat found in France Thursday, October 27, 2005; Posted: 11:39 p.m. EDT (03:39 GMT) APPLETON, Wisconsin (AP) -- When Emily the cat went missing a month ago, her owners looked for their wandering pet where she had ended up before -- the local animal shelter. This week they learned Emily sailed to France. Lesley McElhiney now figures her cat went prowling around a paper warehouse near home and ended up in a cargo container that went by ship across the Atlantic Ocean and was trucked to Nancy, a city in northeastern France near the border with Germany. Employees at a French lamination company found her in the container, checked her tags and called Emily's veterinarian back in the U.S., John Palarski. "It probably had access to food and water," Palarski said. "I doubt if it went three weeks without it. There must have been a lot of mice on the boat. Even if it was in the cargo department, you would assume there was water down there. She had to have something." Palarski faxed the cat's vaccination records to French authorities to help remove her from quarantine, but the family is wondering exactly how they will retrieve the pet. Emily will need a health certificate from France to return home, and she will have to go through quarantine again on entering the United States, Palarski said. "The only thing we can think right now is buying a plane ticket," McElhiney said. "She already cost us some the first time we got her from the humane society. She's getting to be an expensive little thing."

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Ferguson

Singer- Extraodinaire

Purred: Fri Oct 28, '05 8:26am PST


	Oh, and if you'd like to see the source of the story, click here!

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Pea- (2003-2007)

Life's short.

Purred: Fri Oct 28, '05 2:24pm PST


	i dunno... i think maybe she should stay in france! sounds like her humans are a bit to concerned about money, and not about the cat.

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Grizabella

The Glamour Cat

Purred: Fri Oct 28, '05 7:59pm PST


	I'm pretty sure it was written in good humor, they sounded like they were excited that she was found. Have you ever seen the cost it takes to get a cat/any animal through quarentine? Its absolutely rediculous what they have to go through, especially when a cat already has papers.

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Pokey

Formerly Feral

Purred: Fri Oct 28, '05 9:25pm PST


	Mom is glad the cat is found but says she thinks the way they spoke of money was in poor taste.

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Felica 1988 - 2007

Lady Fee, our- little angel

Purred: Sat Oct 29, '05 11:06am PST


	I think it was a hoot, did not take it that way at all. I think her mum was just joking about the $$.

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Ellie

Ellie Bellie

Purred: Sun Oct 30, '05 2:03am PST


	Hey! I live in France now too. My mom moved here for a year. I hear my mom saying that the French are specie-ists against cats! France seems to be a dog's heaven! I hope you get home. It is good that those people called your family in US. How long are you in quarantine?

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Hattie

NaMeowSte

Purred: Sun Oct 30, '05 5:12am PST


	Wow! Quite a story. Reminds me of Norton, the Cat who went to Paris. Has anyone else read those books? He had a great time visiting Paris, and his person would bring him to restaurants, and he'd get the same fuss made over him that the waiters made over the dogs. So maybe it's just that more French people have to get assertive about bringing their kitties outside with them. Hmm... Norton never had to go through quarantine, though. Maybe it is because he traveled with his person and got health certificates before he went. The kitty in the news story sounds more like a stowaway. But wow, how nice of the French people to go to the trouble of calling the American vet!

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Grizabella

The Glamour Cat

Purred: Sun Oct 30, '05 3:02pm PST


	Hattie ~ I read those books a while ago, great stuff! I actually got to meet Norton in person (catson?) once.. he's such a sweet cat!

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Pokey

Formerly Feral

Purred: Sun Oct 30, '05 6:25pm PST


	Mom saw a cat sitting opposite a man with a chess board outside a cafe in Paris.

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