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Willow the cross-country cat back with owners
CBSNews ^
| 9/23/11
| Staff
Posted on 09/23/2011 2:27:05 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
NEW YORK — Five years after she went missing from her Colorado home, Willow the cat has been reunited with her owners in New York City.
How the calico cat ended up on a Manhattan street remains a mystery. But three children and their parents are certainly glad that she'll be headed home with them.
...Willow disappeared when a contractor left the front door ajar during a home renovation project five years ago. The family sent out frantic online messages and put up posters around their home in Broomfield. But when Willow didn't return, they assumed the petite 2-year-old had been eaten by a coyote.
But it turns out Willow was never on the menu. On Sept. 14, a man brought her to Animal Care & Control in New York, saying he had found her on East 20th Street. A quick scan identified a microchip implanted when she was a kitten. The chip contained a code linked to a database of owner information. Despite moving from Broomfield to Boulder, the Squires had updated their information, making it easy for authorities to contact them.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: crosscountrycat; happyending; kitty; kittyping; willow; willowgoeshome
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Neat story and a beautiful cat!!
To: La Enchiladita
There’s a musical in this story somewhere.
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posted on
09/23/2011 2:44:32 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: La Enchiladita
Saw the video and so happy that Willow gets to go home. :)=^..^=
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posted on
09/23/2011 2:48:30 PM PDT
by
Biggirl
("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
To: Slings and Arrows
PING this one over to Slings and Arrows!:)=^..^=
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posted on
09/23/2011 2:49:48 PM PDT
by
Biggirl
("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
To: Biggirl
Rumor has it she was looking for the Cat-skills....hehe.
To: La Enchiladita
Nice. This helps erase the memory of a horrible picture of an inbred cat that I saw recently. I’ll post it if I can find it again...
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posted on
09/23/2011 2:57:23 PM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: La Enchiladita
ah, here it is...
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posted on
09/23/2011 2:59:44 PM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: Biggirl; Slings and Arrows; Glenn; republicangel; Beaker; BADROTOFINGER; etabeta; asgardshill; ...
Willow, Part III.
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posted on
09/23/2011 3:15:52 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: La Enchiladita
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posted on
09/23/2011 3:31:15 PM PDT
by
ZirconEncrustedTweezers
(I've tried to think like a liberal, but I can't get my head far enough up my behind...)
To: gorush
Must be from a kitten mill.... it’s inbread.
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posted on
09/23/2011 3:31:55 PM PDT
by
ZirconEncrustedTweezers
(I've tried to think like a liberal, but I can't get my head far enough up my behind...)
To: La Enchiladita
Now she's takin a cat nap!
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posted on
09/23/2011 3:40:50 PM PDT
by
Young Werther
(Julius Caesar said "Quae cum ita sunt. Since these things are so.".)
To: gorush
To: La Enchiladita; Slings and Arrows
This is such a great story. Willow's probably all cosmopolitan and sophisticated now from all that time in NYC. Boulder's going to seem sooooo small-town to her now. ;-)
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posted on
09/23/2011 3:53:50 PM PDT
by
Allegra
(Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
To: Allegra
Exactly. The Gotham-ist blog says she’s probably going to wonder why everything closes so early back in Boulder.
To: gorush
That’s the INBRED CAT! LOL
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posted on
09/23/2011 4:07:08 PM PDT
by
Fawn
(No TO PERRY!!!!!!!!! (Vote for Newt, Mitt, Cain or Santorum))
To: La Enchiladita
Willow the Lady Cat goes home from the city of the canyon of skyscrapers to where there is REALLY canyons of rock out west. CO is famous for its red rocks.
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posted on
09/23/2011 4:13:25 PM PDT
by
Biggirl
("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
To: La Enchiladita
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posted on
09/23/2011 4:15:24 PM PDT
by
Biggirl
("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
To: La Enchiladita
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posted on
09/23/2011 4:18:09 PM PDT
by
Biggirl
("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
To: Slings and Arrows
Willow goes home from the city famous for its canyon of skyscrapers to a city not far from the skyscrapers of red rocks. :)=^..^=
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posted on
09/23/2011 4:22:36 PM PDT
by
Biggirl
("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
To: Slings and Arrows; Biggirl
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posted on
09/23/2011 5:29:20 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(“There are no compacts between lions and men, and wolves and lambs have no concord.” ~ Homer)
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