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Stowaway cat to go home
14/11/2005 12:45 - (SA)
Appleton - A cat that took a free boat ride to France now gets to rack up some frequent-flyer miles.
Continental Airlines says it will fly Emily the cat back to the United States so she can reunite with her family after stowing away in a cargo container and ending up across the ocean.
The year-old tabby disappeared from her Appleton, Wisconsin, home in late September. She apparently wandered into a paper company's distribution centre near her home and crawled into a container of paper bales.
The container went by truck to Chicago, by boat across the Atlantic Ocean to Belgium and ended up about a month later at Raflatac, a laminating company in Nancy, France.
Continental says it will return Emily to her owners, Lesley and Donny McElhiney, once the cat gets out of quarantine, possibly by the end of the month, the Post-Crescent reported on Friday.
"It looks like we will be reuniting Emily with her family," said Continental spokesperson Courtney Wilcox.
Continental was one of many businesses and people who offered to help bring Emily home. The McElhineys, though, hadn't heard anything definite until Thursday.
Emily, who arrived in France thin and thirsty, was wearing tags, which allowed workers at the laminating company to trace her to her veterinarian.
"We're told that she's doing very well in France and being fed lots of French food," Wilcox said.
Wilcox didn't know whether Emily would return via coach or cargo.
- AP
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