Posted on 04/17/2010 9:18:20 AM PDT by smokingfrog
No one knows how a tabby cat named Charles traveled the 1,300 miles from his New Mexico home to Chicago, but he's set for a complimentary flight home on American Airlines in a carrier donated by an Albuquerque business.
Charles disappeared about eight months ago while his owner was out of town and a friend was caring for him.
“Oh, I was crushed, and I found out while I was away volunteering with Habitat for Humanity, and I was so upset because I was in New Orleans so there was nothing I could do,” said Robin Alex, of Albuquerque.
Then earlier this week, Alex received a call telling her Chicago Animal Care and Control had picked up her wandering cat as a stray. Staffers reached out to Alex after finding that Charles had a tracking microchip embedded between his shoulder blades, said the agency's executive director, Cherie Travis.
But Alex said she could not afford the round-trip ticket to Chicago to bring Charles home, so she was afraid he might be euthanized.
Enter fellow Albuquerque resident Lucien Sims. Sims said he has a tabby cat who strongly resembles Charles, and was moved when his mother sent him an online story about Alex and her pet.
Most importantly, Sims was on his way to Chicago on Thursday for a wedding, so he said he would go to the shelter, pick up Charles and bring him back to New Mexico.
Sims has made all the arrangements for Charles' return, including getting a company to donate a cat carrier and American Airlines to waive the cat's travel fee.
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kitty ping
They should get this cat to star in that psychedelic Friskie’s cat commercial with the Enya music
Habitat for Humanity? I’d run away too.
Kitty should get frequent walking miles for all the miles put in! :)=^..^=
Too bad they can’t talk. I’d love to know how the heck he got to Chicago!!
They should get that cat to solve our economic problems. He seems far more talented than Obama.
I have a friend who moved to LA from the east coast. His cat got on the moving van when they picked up his furniture.
They did an feature article about the cat on the Bekins Moving Company employee newsletter.
Cute little mouf.
OMGosh! That could be Miss Purry Petme! I made the mistake of playing with her as she reached under the bathroom door to snag the Swiffer, and now every time I go in there she wants more of the same.
Fun Cat Picture.
This one?
Yep. I like when the cat jumps onto the fish-boat at 0:30 seconds. That has to have a cat motion study embedded into the commercial. The cat jumps so smoothly as in real life. Somehow the cartoon is overlaid on top of real world cat motion jumping. The commercial should get an award for overall excellence.
“The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat....’’well maybe old kitty missed the boat and decided to take a plane. I dunno... Anyway he’ll never tell. :-)
Were they looking all over for the cat ...and then it jumps out of the moving van when it arrives on the East Coast?
My friend looked for the cat but never found it.
Bekins Moving told him the cat was in the van when it arrived at another stop ... not in Los Angeles.
The flew the cat to my friend’s new home in LA.
I don’t know, the cat wasn’t smart enough to stay away from Chicago.
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