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How Far Would You Drive to Find Your Cat?
Emirates 24/7 ^ | Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Posted on 01/28/2016 9:49:47 AM PST by nickcarraway

Man drives 1,700 miles to retrieve his lost-and-found cat

A cat named Hemi is back with his owner, who drove 1,700 miles from North Dakota to retrieve his lost-and-found pet.

Multiple media outlets report Robert Connell drove from Bismarck to the Craven County, North Carolina, animal shelter to pick up Hemi on Monday.

Connell says he decided to make the drive after the winter storm nixed plans for a family friend to fly Hemi to Bismarck.

Connell served as a Marine, and he says Hemi helped him cope with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Robert and his wife lived in North Carolina when they found Hemi in 2009. Hemi disappeared in 2011 when Robert deployed.

The family later moved to Bismarck when Robert got a new job.

Hemi turned up last week, and a microchip enabled officials to find the Connells.


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To: nickcarraway

If I ever lost my mind long enough to allow a stinky cat into my house I would find myself lucky and well shut of it if that danged thing ever got lost.


21 posted on 01/28/2016 10:18:05 AM PST by pgkdan (Trump 2016 ! And then put Ted Cruz on the USSC!)
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To: nickcarraway

Where I live, the closest Coyote Den.


22 posted on 01/28/2016 10:19:05 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Get the CDS and TDS Vaccines before it's too late.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

:: the closest Coyote Den ::

That’s a disco nickname, right?


23 posted on 01/28/2016 10:20:53 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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To: nickcarraway

Cats > people, and brother, the gap is getting wider every day. I’d drive a long way to get mine back.


24 posted on 01/28/2016 10:22:51 AM PST by Stevenc131
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To: discostu

Our cats have a very important job on the farm. They keep mice out of the barn. The dogs have a different job, they keep the coyotes and bobcats away from the barn. The Great Horned Owl that lives nearby is a bit of a problem, but the cats are very aware of his presence. Cats only very rarely disappear, but becoming Coyote chow is only one of several possibilities.

I think that you should round up some busybodies and demand a law that requires everyone to live like you. And, I don’t send $19 a month to the Humane Society either. Sue me.


25 posted on 01/28/2016 10:24:10 AM PST by centurion316
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To: dp0622; Stevenc131

I’m with you, I’ll take the companionship from mine over today’s brainwashed stupidity any day.


26 posted on 01/28/2016 10:27:43 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Political Correctness is a kool-aid drinking suicide cult)
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To: dp0622

Nice story.
Was never a fan of cats til some fool gave one to us on Xmas morning. Really. Who does that?
Anyway. When the old lady left the cat was left with me. Best Darned pet I ever had! Cats are Cool!


27 posted on 01/28/2016 10:47:24 AM PST by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: nickcarraway

Dog lover here, but if I had a cat...yes I would go and get it.


28 posted on 01/28/2016 10:49:08 AM PST by 3D-JOY (...don't forget to visit the FREEPATHON today!)
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To: strider44

I am of the same mentality. I won’t go out of my way that far not even if it’s a great mouser.


29 posted on 01/28/2016 10:49:29 AM PST by Bulwyf
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To: nickcarraway

we were traveling across the state a year or two ago...stopped at a NY thruway rest stop - trucks cars you name it - all loud and all moving every which way....a young lady opened her car door after, only to have that cat make a break across the lot, through a small fence hole and into the woods.....I don’t think I ever saw anything so heartbreaking - the girl was terribly upset


30 posted on 01/28/2016 10:55:12 AM PST by Revelation 911
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To: discostu

Holy crap, I actually agree with you on something, Stu.


31 posted on 01/28/2016 11:15:17 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: nickcarraway

My cat is named Toonces. He can drive himself home, as long there aren’t any precipitous drops on the way.


32 posted on 01/28/2016 11:29:21 AM PST by Disambiguator
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To: NEMDF

I agree.
I would do it without second thought.


33 posted on 01/28/2016 11:32:40 AM PST by Verbosus (/* No Comment */)
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To: NEMDF

Across the coals of hell and back.


34 posted on 01/28/2016 11:35:07 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: nickcarraway

I’d rive about one revolution of all the tires. If I don’t find the cat that way, it will make it back on it’s own somehow, sometime.


35 posted on 01/28/2016 11:36:25 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (I miss my dad.)
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Well..

Anyone want to go to Norway to pick up this cat?

I would suspicion she's - strange.

It doesn't say whether she's litter-trained...

36 posted on 01/28/2016 11:37:04 AM PST by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: strider44
Cats are a dime a dozen. Sorry to offend, but true. We ve lost a few over the years to coyotes. You feel bummed out for a few days then just get another one.

Yep, I wouldn't walk across the road to find a cat. I grew up on a farm, if the cats didn't fend for themselves, they died. I would never let one of them in to my house.

37 posted on 01/28/2016 11:40:24 AM PST by upsdriver
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To: centurion316

Working animals are different than pets. I was talking about pets. The thread is about pets. Presumably the poster I berated was talking about pets.

I think you should can the hyperbole and bother to understand the actual conversation you jumped in on.


38 posted on 01/28/2016 11:54:19 AM PST by discostu (This is a different kind of flying... all together.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

I’m sure we agree on a lot. Just not Trek.


39 posted on 01/28/2016 11:54:42 AM PST by discostu (This is a different kind of flying... all together.)
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To: discostu

Aren’t you special. I believe that I was talking about the same species, does this mean that you have a different set of rules for domestic animals, wild animals, and house pets? Where can I get a set of these rules?


40 posted on 01/28/2016 12:00:23 PM PST by centurion316
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