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Cat that cost £6k to rescue from Arab Spring runs away from new UK owners
the Sun ^
| October 4, 2011
| ELLIE ROSS
Posted on 10/03/2012 4:10:52 PM PDT by Daffynition
A COUPLE who spent £6,000 rescuing a cat from Arab Spring violence have been left devastated after the moggy ran away.
Railton and Dawn Elliott fell in love with Omar while on holiday in Egypt and decided to save him from the trouble sweeping the country by bringing him home to the UK.
They shelled out a fortune in quarantine and vets bills and the lucky cat settled into his new life at their home in rural Oxfordshire.
But Omar vanished two weeks ago almost a year to the day after he left quarantine.
Dawn, 46, who runs a confectionary company with her husband, said: Were absolutely heartbroken.
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TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Travel; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: kittyping
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The ungrateful moggy, Omar.
To: Slings and Arrows
And it’s not even Caturday!
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posted on
10/03/2012 4:11:58 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ~ HLM)
To: Daffynition
What a catastrophe! The owners must be catatonic! I’ll bet he hopped a catamaran to Catalina.
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posted on
10/03/2012 4:17:22 PM PDT
by
HerrBlucher
(Praise to the Lord the Almighty the King of Creation)
To: Daffynition; Slings and Arrows
This Cat knows how to Troll!
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posted on
10/03/2012 4:18:44 PM PDT
by
KC_Lion
( Wherever I find myself standing, I forever stand with Israel.)
To: Daffynition
Rural area? the owners probably let him run around outside ... and wonder why he doesn’t come back. Any number of reasons. Maybe a fox et ‘im. I hope not ... but if you let a cat run around outside, you’re taking a gamble.
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posted on
10/03/2012 4:21:05 PM PDT
by
Hetty_Fauxvert
( "Be Breitbart, baby!")
To: Daffynition
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posted on
10/03/2012 4:21:54 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("OF COURSE I TALK TO MYSELF - Sometimes I need an expert opinion")
To: Daffynition
How sad, but cats should be kept indoors. Too many things can happen to them outside.
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posted on
10/03/2012 4:27:06 PM PDT
by
exDemMom
(Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
To: SkyDancer
:-)
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posted on
10/03/2012 4:27:29 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ~ HLM)
To: Daffynition
Because cats are never known to be ungrateful...
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posted on
10/03/2012 4:28:13 PM PDT
by
EURASLEEP
(Europe is Crashing and They're Asleep at the Wheel)
To: Daffynition
Maybe he was mad at them for giving him a Muslim name.
Adorable cat!
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posted on
10/03/2012 4:32:20 PM PDT
by
CatherineofAragon
(Don't be afraid to see what you see. (Ronald Reagan))
To: exDemMom
Something similar happened to us. [But not nearly the expenditure of these folks] I had brought home a cat that was wailing in a shrub at work for week. The poor thing was scrawny and full of fleas and ticks.
The vet treated him and brought shots up to date, yada.........at a cost of about $300. It turns out that shortly after he was beginning to settle in, we moved. We’ve moved with animals successfully B4 and we had a good idea of what to do. One of my sons drove the cat over to the new house in a carrier....and when he let the cat out of the carrier, he didn’t notice the door was still ajar. Cat bolted. We never saw it again.
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posted on
10/03/2012 4:35:23 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ~ HLM)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
10/03/2012 4:38:26 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("OF COURSE I TALK TO MYSELF - Sometimes I need an expert opinion")
To: exDemMom
Agreed. My cats were all strays, but once they came into my home, they didn’t go out. My present cat runs away and hides under my bed if I just open the door to get the paper. He never wants to go outside. He had enough of the outdoors.
To: CatherineofAragon
I guess he was named after Omar Sharif.
Hope they bothered to have him chipped...not that that is foolproof.
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posted on
10/03/2012 4:39:44 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ~ HLM)
To: SkyDancer
Heh....and gone political. :)
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posted on
10/03/2012 4:41:56 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ~ HLM)
To: Hetty_Fauxvert
...if you let a cat run around outside, youre taking a gamble. Absolutely true. They'll almost certainly come back if they can. If they don't it's a very bad sign.
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posted on
10/03/2012 4:42:27 PM PDT
by
luvbach1
(Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
10/03/2012 4:43:02 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("OF COURSE I TALK TO MYSELF - Sometimes I need an expert opinion")
To: LucyT
Left a life of luxury for one to be on the lam.
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posted on
10/03/2012 4:45:37 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ~ HLM)
To: SkyDancer
He....
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posted on
10/03/2012 5:08:02 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ~ HLM)
To: exDemMom
I agree..my cats stay inside..no way I would let them outside and especially not if I spent 1000s to bring them home.
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