Pet cat catches the daily bus for four years
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A pet cat has caught the same bus regularly for four years.
Casper, which is 12 years old, boards the No3 service at 10.55am from outside his home in Plymouth, Devon, and travels the entire 11-mile route before returning home about an hour later.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5933325/Pet-cat-catches-the-daily-bus-for-four-years.html
Casper, which is 12 years old, boards the No3 service at 10.55am from outside his home in Plymouth, Devon, and travels the entire 11-mile route before returning home about an hour later.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5933325/Pet-cat-catches-the-daily-bus-for-four-years.html
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It reminds of a story my mother told me about the dog she had as a child. It used to follow the her & her brothers & sisters down to the bus stop every morning & get on the bus to go to the school with them. At the school gates it would cross the road to the bus stop on the other side & wait for a bus to take him home again (all on his own!). Then at 3.30ish it would trot down to the bus stop & catch the bus back to school & be waiting at the school gates to escort them home again.
My grandfather used to manage a dance hall & the dog would ask to go out every evening at about 10.00 pm. & go to a different bus stop & catch a bus into town & wait outside the dance hall & then escort my grandfather home again.
Apparently he was a wonderful & devoted pet & this was in the "olden days" when most dogs were just shut out in the day time to do their own thing & come home again when they were hungry. Not something we can do these days!
but my dad has a cat where his business and i still think it comes into the waiting room where the customers wait for their takeaways
When I crossed back after going to the shop he'd come down from the tree and follow me home again.
Oddly enough that was the only time he'd ever come near me.
My neighbour used to walk her dog and the cat would go along too!!
They are crazy little things aren't they?
That's a lot of money that First have been losing there
Or has it been, locally?
Nice story, nice cat.
oh you can!!!!! its pretty big so not sure if it very safe if it gets caught up on something....
but just google it some german guy produces them but they are very expensive
I used to have a cat that liked to take walks round the small town I used to live in, we'd often be told by neighbours they'd seen him out on his travels.
As far as I knew he never took the bus though;)
I would hate to see what my cats get up to.
All the animals would just follow, never tried to run off and the cats never bothered the chickens. As soon as all the kids started heading back to the house they would all follow again.
Also a cat we used to have used to come on holiday (she lived till she was 18 but this instance was before I was born - se dies when I was 14). My parents loved going caravanning and they would just take her, let her out to do her own thing and she always came back.
Cats are wonderful creatures.
I remember a similar story about a white cat a few years ago who caught the bus every day and got off a few stops later.
I hope he continues to catch his bus safely, he's a gorgeous boy.