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Couple crosses ocean for purrr-fect kitten
msnbc ^ | Sun., May 17, 2009

Posted on 05/17/2009 5:33:39 PM PDT by JoeProBono

After a ton of paperwork, Londoners head back across Atlantic with Sparky: HARRISON, Michigan - A British couple traveled nearly 4,000 miles to adopt "Sparky," a black-and-white kitten in central Michigan. Rose and Chris Rasmussen discovered Sparky on Petfinder.com last year and decided to adopt him. The couple traveled from their suburban London home to the Clare County Animal Shelter in Harrison, where the kitten was an unofficial mascot. They could have had Sparky shipped, but instead decided to make the trip as an adventure, visiting Detroit and Chicgao before showing up to adopt their new pet. After paperwork, quarantine and other final checks, the Rasmussens were to take Sparky to his new home.

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TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: cat; kittieping; kittyping
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Chris Rasmussen of London, England presses the button on the drinking fountain for his new cat Sparky.


1 posted on 05/17/2009 5:33:39 PM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono
Spend your own money now, however you want, before you don't have a choice.

Where're the greenies? Think of this carbon footprint for a mere cat!

2 posted on 05/17/2009 5:37:46 PM PDT by synbad600
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To: JoeProBono

nice kitty, good kitty


3 posted on 05/17/2009 5:39:22 PM PDT by bigbob
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4 posted on 05/17/2009 5:40:55 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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Eh?


5 posted on 05/17/2009 5:43:12 PM PDT by TheZMan ("I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.")
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To: JoeProBono
Sparky likes to explore and twice destroyed Christmas trees during his roughly nine-month stay at the shelter.

Yup, he's a tuxedo cat.

6 posted on 05/17/2009 5:45:56 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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7 posted on 05/17/2009 5:52:16 PM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (The emperor has no pedigree.)
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8 posted on 05/17/2009 5:54:40 PM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (The emperor has no pedigree.)
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9 posted on 05/17/2009 5:59:44 PM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (The emperor has no pedigree.)
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10 posted on 05/17/2009 6:08:06 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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11 posted on 05/17/2009 6:10:45 PM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (The emperor has no pedigree.)
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To: BerryDingle

twice destroyed Christmas trees during his roughly nine-month stay at the shelter.

Good trick.


12 posted on 05/17/2009 6:12:40 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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13 posted on 05/17/2009 6:14:20 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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Four thousand miles ... this could have been just around their corner ...

14 posted on 05/17/2009 6:14:38 PM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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Never send two cats together through the matter transporter during heavy sunspot activity.


15 posted on 05/17/2009 6:17:56 PM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (The emperor has no pedigree.)
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16 posted on 05/17/2009 6:26:26 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To all you other cats out there all I have to say is "Pleh"

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17 posted on 05/17/2009 6:33:24 PM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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18 posted on 05/17/2009 7:13:26 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: windcliff

ping


19 posted on 05/17/2009 7:54:14 PM PDT by stylecouncilor (The black man is keeping me down!)
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To: JoeProBono; Slings and Arrows; Glenn; republicangel; Bahbah; Beaker; BADROTOFINGER; etabeta; ...
While I have your attention, a word of warning about what HSUS does with donations. (Link thanks to Salamander.)


20 posted on 05/17/2009 10:07:42 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Israel is built on rock. Arabia is built on sand.)
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