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Chinese kitten stows away on LA-bound freighter
Associated Press via San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com ^
| Thursday, July 12, 2012
| Associated Press Staff
Posted on 07/12/2012 9:04:51 PM PDT by thecodont
CARSON, Calif. (AP) A 3-month-old kitten survived a journey across the Pacific, traveling from Shanghai to Los Angeles without food or water while locked in a freight container on a ship.
The orange-and-white short-haired kitten traveled 6,500 miles before arriving Wednesday.
[...]
The kitten ate and slept well at the Carson Animal Care Center, said animal control director Marcia Mayeda. He was alert and responsive Thursday.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: cats; china; containershipping; kittyping; losangeles
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posted on
07/12/2012 9:04:58 PM PDT
by
thecodont
To: thecodont
So how did they know it was Chinese? Did it “merow” instead of “meow”?
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posted on
07/12/2012 9:07:55 PM PDT
by
FrdmLvr
(culture, language, borders)
To: thecodont
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posted on
07/12/2012 9:09:33 PM PDT
by
HerrBlucher
("The cross opens its arms to the four winds; it is a signpost for free travelers." GK Chesterton)
To: HerrBlucher
dissident kitteh escapes the opreshun!
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posted on
07/12/2012 9:11:24 PM PDT
by
RC one
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To: FrdmLvr
Give that kitty a Viking helmet!
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posted on
07/12/2012 9:13:10 PM PDT
by
Puckster
To: RC one
Yup. I bet that kitten hates Meow Tse Tung.
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posted on
07/12/2012 9:13:36 PM PDT
by
HerrBlucher
("The cross opens its arms to the four winds; it is a signpost for free travelers." GK Chesterton)
To: thecodont; Slings and Arrows; Glenn; republicangel; Beaker; BADROTOFINGER; etabeta; asgardshill; ...
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posted on
07/12/2012 9:13:46 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
Comment #8 Removed by Moderator
To: thecodont
It's amazing how they can shut down and survive.
I had one climb into the 240Z during an overhaul (unknown to us), we left for the weekend, temps over 108 outside, and the Z wasn't under shade.
When I opened it up, the kitten staggered out, mostly dead, but with a very clean intestinal tract (everything was in the car).
We fed it some water, and it lived. The smell in the car eventually went away.
/johnny
To: HerrBlucher
I thought it was mouse se tung
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posted on
07/12/2012 9:20:37 PM PDT
by
willyd
To: thecodont
If it was a Chinese registered ship and crew....that kitty did some serious evasive maneuvers while on board.
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posted on
07/12/2012 9:24:37 PM PDT
by
Puckster
To: thecodont; Slings and Arrows
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posted on
07/12/2012 9:35:18 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
To: Puckster
We’re your: `You catch-`em, you stun-em, you kill-em, you butcher-em yourself steakhouse.’ Mels Char Palace, a self-service, fine-feline dining experience.
Yeah, that cat had nine lives, at least.
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posted on
07/12/2012 9:42:57 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(Sic Semper Tyrannis)
To: thecodont
The crew should have kept the kitten as a mascot.
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posted on
07/12/2012 9:43:10 PM PDT
by
mowowie
To: thecodont
The crew should have kept the kitten as a mascot.
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posted on
07/12/2012 9:43:10 PM PDT
by
mowowie
To: HerrBlucher
He looks Chinese. Glad he made it out—that was his lucky day to escape China.
To: thecodont
Was he Siamese, if you please...?
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posted on
07/12/2012 10:41:45 PM PDT
by
ponygirl
(Be Breitbart.)
To: thecodont
If Janet Reno finds out about this, the Kitten is Toast, I mean Meow Meow Soup.
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posted on
07/12/2012 10:45:27 PM PDT
by
Kickass Conservative
(Godfathercare, either your Freedom or your Money will be on that Insurance Policy.)
Comment #19 Removed by Moderator
To: Slings and Arrows
Looks part mizer or small part siamise.
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posted on
07/13/2012 2:58:08 AM PDT
by
Biggirl
("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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