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Conference misery::feline

Title:	Meower Power - Where Differing Opinions are Respected
Notice:	purrrrr...
Moderator:	JULIET::CORDES_JA

Created:	Wed Nov 13 1991
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1079
Total number of notes:	28858

774.0. "Unsolved Mysteries story" by GOOEY::JUDY (Trip the firelight) Thu Jun 30 1994 11:06

    
    	Did anyone watch Unsolved Mysteries last night?  A couple
    	of their stories were on animals who traveled unbelievable
    	distances to be reunited with their people.  The first one
    	was a cat that jumped out of a moving van window when her
    	owner had pulled into a rest area to sleep for the night.
    	The woman and her brother searched for an hour but they
    	had to leave and travel another 200 miles to her new home.
    	A new co-worker that knew of the lost cat gave the woman
    	a drawing of a black cat to remember Nova by.  The woman
    	colored in the eyes bright yellow and hung the picture up
    	over her desk.  A few weeks later she found two stray
    	cats outside her office building.  One of them was her
    	cat!  She identified her by 5 distinguishing marks.  The
    	cat traveled 200 miles from where she got lost to the new
    	city her owner was in.
    
    	The other one was about a collie.  She and another dog
    	belonging to a family didn't return from a run in the
    	woods at the family cabin.  Unfortunately, a forest fire
    	broke out and the family had to evacuate the area without
    	the dogs.   The seven year old daughter was devastated as
    	she had grown up with the dogs and Lady was her favorite.
    	She prayed every night for Lady to come home.  Weeks later
    	a collie wandered into the yard of an older couple, they
    	checked her tags and called the owners.  She had traveled
    	150 miles to get home.  Why one dog made it and the other
    	one didn't they don't know but they're hoping that Wolfka
    	was taken in by someone else and has a new home.
    
    	They had an animal behaviorist on that said there is a 
    	such a strong bond between animals and their owners that
    	they have a mental telepathy of sorts and that's how 
    	some animals can find their way back home.
    
    	They were really good stories.  Brought tears to my eyes
    	and everything.  =)
    
    	JJ

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774.1		JULIET::LANE_BE		`Thu Jun 30 1994 16:07`	26
	The cat story seemed hard to believe. I mean how did the cat know where they were moving to? Some special cat. We also had a dog named Lady when I was a teenager. When my grand- mother had a stoke my parents went to live with her and they took Lady with them. Somehow she got out of the back yard. We had the entire family, neighbors etc. looking and never could find her. A couple months later, after my parents had moved back to their own home, she showed up. It was GREAT!!! We were all sitting there watching TV and I heard her dog tags rattle and here she came up the street. I'm pretty sure Dad cooked her a T-bone that night! She had a broken tail (which apparently happened early on) and was thin, but otherwise alright. Our vet said she probably started walking around my grandmother' neighborhood and got confused. So she started going in circles progressing to bigger and bigger circles until she finally found home. I sure would love to have another like her!
774.2	Curiouser, curiouser....	STOWOA::FALLON	Moonsta Cattery	`Fri Jul 01 1994 08:27`	4
	Yes, I saw that. It reminded me of the "Incredible Journey". That was a really nice movie. Better than the recent one with the talking dogs. Karen
774.3		STOWOA::LPIERCE	Ten Feet Tall & Bulletproff	`Wed Jul 13 1994 07:08`	11
	I had a kitten yrs ago that I got from a friend in Marlboro, MA. I lived in Hudson, MA (about a 20min car ride). Once day the cat was gone..I looked and looked. I was very upset, I had never lost a cat. About 2 weeks later, the kitten showed up back at its owners...the kitten was fine, but her nails were quite dull! So, I agreed to let the original owner keep her, since she wanted to be there so bad. lou
774.4		GOOEY::JUDY	Temptation is a lonely world	`Mon Aug 22 1994 10:13`	18
	I read a story last night Woman's World magazine about a female doberman that couldn't have puppies (she's a hemophiliac and would bleed to death) and adopted and nursed 4 abandoned kittens! A little girl found 4 kittens and the dead momma cat =( so she brought the kittens home. They weren't sure how Angel (the dog) would do with them because she chases the neighbor's cat. But the little girl put the kittens next to her one at a time and Angel treated them as if she had given birth to them. She was a little lost when three of the kittens were given to good homes at the right age but the family kept one of the kittens and Angel lavishes him with attention. I love stories like this. =) JJ
774.5	Great story!	GENRAL::JORDAN		`Tue Aug 23 1994 14:44`	6
	I am the proud owner of a Beautiful doberman (and a cat). I'm glad to see stories of dobermans other than the usual "Bad Breed" stories. Thanks LJ