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CN Conductor Rescues Cat

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Posted by cx500 on Monday, December 19, 2016 12:18 PM

The latest is that the cat's owners have probably been identified and it will be heading back to a very happy family in Saskatchewan.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/q199-tiger-cat-cn-train-returned-home-1.3900730

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Posted by ChuckCobleigh on Monday, December 19, 2016 5:30 PM

zugmann

I got my one cat when he was a little kitten from my railyard.  He's a bit mental, but hey, he did come from a rail yard.   So it's to be expected.

Hmmm, sensing a trend here, from the article about Tiger's reunion:

Coincidentally, Hahn and her husband are retired CN employees and had found Tiger running around the rail yard in their home town of Melville, Sask.

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Posted by Electroliner 1935 on Monday, December 19, 2016 5:36 PM

Nice story with a happy ending. Just right for the season. And they lived happily ever after.

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Posted by MidlandMike on Monday, December 19, 2016 7:58 PM

I had an indoor-outdoor cat that lived for 21 years.  I have had other i-o cats that just never returned home.  My wife insists in keeping our present cat indoors, with occasional outdoor time in a pet stroller.  

Mookie, I hear some animal shelters have foster pet programs.

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Posted by Mookie on Monday, December 19, 2016 8:07 PM

MidlandMike
Mookie, I hear some animal shelters have foster pet programs.

First - I would have to take up residence at the shelter, cuz I wouldn't want to leave "my" animals - and 2nd, right after we had to send Mookie to her final rest, our landlord put a no pet clause in our rental agreement.  

Strange, too because all our pets were foundlings at the front or back door.  When he did that, no more animals showed up.  Confused

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Posted by greyhounds on Tuesday, December 20, 2016 8:03 PM

Mookie

Have had both cats and dogs - this is the reason I absolutely will not have another animal - none of them ever turned out to be immortal and their time with me was always never enough.

Yes, they will all eventually break your heart.

I'm obviously a dog guy.  I just need to find a girlfriend who will put up with both me and a couple dogs.  The "X wife person" liked the dogs but evidently grew quite tired of me.  

I view dogs as a gift from God sent to enrich our lives.  They do that quite well.  They are a gift that is in our stewardship, and we must never fail to honor our gift.

 

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Posted by dakotafred on Tuesday, December 20, 2016 8:09 PM

cx500

The latest is that the cat's owners have probably been identified and it will be heading back to a very happy family in Saskatchewan.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/q199-tiger-cat-cn-train-returned-home-1.3900730

 

 
I worry, though, that the cat may have the "Freight Train Blues." Will he be able to resist the next "wildcat call of a southbound freight"?
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Posted by SPlives on Tuesday, December 27, 2016 6:01 PM

i work for the union pacific railroad i took the cats from the yard the u p r r said they wanted the cats back or i would be fried. they where going to put them to sleep. i had the cat and i do not work thre any more im happy to see the other railroad are better place to work and friendlyer.andrew strickland

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Posted by Sunnyland on Thursday, December 29, 2016 7:40 PM

nice story and I was glad to read it.  Too many bad news today and this was a happy story. 

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