Posted on 02/09/2005 6:24:38 AM PST by jmhfnyc
A CAT which inherited £450,000 has been moved to a secret safe house after a series of death threats. Tinker was given a £350,000 three-bedroom house and £100,000 when widow Margaret Layne died aged 89 last year. But now neighbours Eugene and Ann Wheatley, trustees of his fortune, have moved the moggy from Harrow, North London. Mr Wheatley, 77, said: "He is safe now in a place in mid-Wales but I dare not say where exactly. "After the news of Tinker's inheritance we got hundreds of calls from people jealous of his money. It was horrible." Tinker had been a stray before childless Ms Layne took him in. Mr Wheatley said after her death: "She didn't trust people - she trusted animals."
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Reminds me of a line from a 30 year old Jimmy Buffet song:
"But he left all of his royalties
To Spooner his old hound
Growin old on steak and bacon
In a dog house ten feet 'round"
> "She didn't trust people - she trusted animals."
Well, after this story ( http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1338767/posts ), who can really blame her?
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