Comedy | July 11, 2008 | 15 comments

Cat gets mailed across Germany

source: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,565019,00.html

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Tomcat Janosch was just looking for a nice place to sleep when he got into a neighbour's box. Instead, he and the package were shipped halfway across Germany.

The first thing owner Gitti Rauch, a 44-year-old waitress, who lives in a Bavarian village near the Austrian border, knew about her pet's epic journey was when she received a phone call from a neighbor. "I've sent your cat in the post," Manuela Lueginger sheepishly admitted. The day before in her cellar, Lueginger had carefully wrapped tape around a package, which contained a child seat that she had auctioned off on eBay.

Twenty-four hours and 717 kilometers (445 miles) later the package arrived in Dorsten, a town in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, where to the surprise of postal workers the box started to move. Once opened, they discovered the cat, which had survived the journey without a scratch.

After discovering the cat, the postal workers first tracked down Leuginger as the sender of the package, and then handed Janosch over to a nearby animal shelter, where he had to wait three long weeks before he was reunited with his owner.

Although the cat might have thought he was getting a free trip, his journey across Germany turned out quite expensive for his owner. In the end, Rauch had to fork out €280 ($440) in train tickets and fees for the animal shelter. "It was worth it," she said. "We're just happy he's now back with us."
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