Posted on 03/24/2023 5:45:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Thai man travelled some 300km from Bangkok to Korat with his 11 cats in tow on a motorcycle, attracting praise and “likes” from cat lovers online.
Choowong Thepkoh, 65, who sells amulets and other knick knacks at flea markets in Bangkok, had travelled to Korat to sell his goods at a popular annual flea market.
Choowong also hails from Korat, and wanted to bring his “kids,” or his cats, to visit his birthplace.
Facebook page, Kingdom of Tigers – dedicated to cat lovers, and whose followers know of Choowong as an ardent fan of cats – raised funds to buy the man a sidecar motorcycle, so he could travel with his feline friends.
On Friday, March 17, the page also urged its followers to donate cat food to Choowong as he was about to travel to Korat.
In an interview, Choowong revealed that he left his hometown 26 years ago, and worked in flea markets in and around Bangkok to support himself and the cats that he would adopt over the years.
All of his cats were strays, he said, and he would often bring them along everywhere he went.
He also shared their names: Thong Kwak, Thong Ek, Thong K, Thong Daeng, Thong Kam, Thong Heng, Thong Pradab, Si Nuan, Si Som, Si Suay, and Si Baitong.
“Someone once offered to buy Thong Kwak for 20,000 baht ($780), but I refused to sell, fearing that the person would one day become bored of him and abandon him. I want to take care of him until the day he dies.”
Choowong said he was grateful to everyone who supported him and his cats. He received a lot of cat food from people he met along the way.
Like a Cat-tle drive?
S: There’s no such thing as a bloody cat license.
C: I bleeding got one, look! What’s that then?
S: This is a dog license with the word ‘dog’ crossed out and ‘cat’ written in in crayon.
C: The man didn’t have the right form.
S: What man?
C: The man from the cat detector van.
S: The looney detector van, you mean.
C: Look, it’s people like you what cause unrest.
S: What cat detector van?
C: The cat detector van from the Ministry of Housinge.
Meals on Wheels?
“A Thai man travelled some 300km from Bangkok to Korat with his 11 cats in tow on a motorcycle, attracting praise and “likes” from cat lovers online.“
Guy has to be a real tosser to do this.
All Siamese cats are a little nuts. And these are technically all Siamese cats.
Ha ha.
Sure. People get expensive pets and have wound up surrendering them or letting them go somewhere.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/viral-video-shows-woman-abandoning-180715351.html
They only suffer suspicion it is a vet visit, and howl the whole time.
300 kilometers is about 180 miles. This does not reach epic level for me.
I like this guy!... I have three adults and four seventeen day old babies.
Epic? 300 kilometers is less than 200 miles.
To a European, 100 miles is a long way.
To North Americans, 100 years is a long time.
It’s all a matter of perspective.
When I was in college, there was a lady in the neighborhood that was known as the cat lady. I thought we would adopt a kitten so one day I went over and she gave us the tour of the house on the way to a back bedroom where the new kittens were.
On the way down the hall, and I will never forget this, we passed a bedroom that for some reason had a long dining room table in it, and no other furniture. It must have been 15-20 Siamese cats in it - no other type of cats - JUST Siamese. They were all glaring out the door as they sat motionless on the table in near darkness.
As we passed the room, the cat lady looked back at us and said, “what ever you do, DON’T go in that room. JUST ... DONT!
She was deadly serious. It was like a scene in a movie.
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