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Cat survives 8 days posted in a box! - Tobi - 03-28-2016
Cupcake the Siamese cat was accidentally posted along with a consignment of DVDs!
She survived the ordeal of 8 days in the mail! And is now reunited with her people who are overjoyed to get her back.
http://www.aol.co.uk/news/2016/03/27/cat-survives-eight-days-in-a-box-after-being-accidentally-put-in-the-post/
(If that's not a warning to cats to stay out of cardboard boxes....I don't know what is!)
RE: Cat survives 8 days posted in a box! - Catherine - 03-28-2016
I was just about to post about this when I realized that you had already done it.
I heard about it on my phone so I was looking it up on my computer and got a surprize. Cats getting shipped is pretty common.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/package-holiday-cat-gets-mailed-across-germany-a-565019.html
It seems that there is a history to cats getting sent places.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/08/that-time-people-sent-a-cat-through-the-mail-using-pneumatic-tubes/278629/
I am not sure this was so good an idea for the cats involved.
There were a number of other stories so it is obvious that cats have made a habit of getting sent places by post and package.
RE: Cat survives 8 days posted in a box! - Ruth - 03-28-2016
People have to check their boxes more carefully that's for sure!
RE: Cat survives 8 days posted in a box! - Catherine - 03-29-2016
Cats have a way of getting into things. Think how often you hear about a cat getting into a moving van and ending up a thousand miles away. I suppose we should wonder that it doesn`t happen more often.