Emily, the Stowaway Cat, Is Coming Home

[CatWoman]

Emily, a stowaway cat, looks through the plane window before heading to Wisconsin, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2005 at Roissy airport, north of Paris. Emily disappeared two months ago and wound up traveling across the Atlantic Ocean to France as a stowaway in a cargo container. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)


PARIS — Emily the cat is heading home, in style. The wayward tabby from Wisconsin who disappeared two months ago and wound up traveling across the Atlantic to France boarded a Continental Airlines flight Thursday — in business class.

Travel conditions leaving Europe promised to be a bit more comfortable for Emily, who arrived as a stowaway in a cargo container after straying from home in Appleton, Wis.

"I don't think she'll drink champagne but I think she will be happy to rest," said Continental spokesman Philippe Fleury, at Charles de Gaulle airport to see Emily off. The airline offered to fly the cat home from Paris after her tale spread around the world and she cleared a one-month quarantine.

"This was such a marvelous story, that we wanted to add something to it," Fleury told AP Television News. A full-fare ticket for Emily's seat would normally cost about $6,000 and the airline provided a company escort for the cat.

Emily vanished from her home in late September. She apparently wandered into a nearby paper company's distribution center and crawled into a container of paper bales.

http://www.ajc.com/hp/content/shared-gen/ap/Feature_Stories/Stowaway_Cat.html

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1. I love this story!! I can't wait til they make a movie over this.

Just kidding, of course, but it warms my cockles somehow.

Cat lovers, rejoice!

[Renew Deal]

2. kick

:kick:

[CatWoman]

3. what???? no love for Emily????

:shrug:

[El Fuego]

4. I love a happy kittty story!

:)

[Lavender Brown]

5. She looks a little wistful

Maybe she wanted to stay in Europe. :shrug:

[CatWoman]

6. and eat cheese and brie

:D

I know, I know -- they are both the same.

But Chimpy didn't know that.

[CottonBear]

7. How many of us can say our cat visited Paris, France?

That is such a sweet story! :)

[Jamastiene]

8. She wanted a vacation and to see the world.

Anyone who knows cats knows they are wistful like that. They are free spirits at heart.

I agree with the other posters who say this should be a movie. I can see it now. Homeward Bound: Emily Does France.

[Sanity Claws]

9. Pepe LePew lives in Paris!

Do you think they met? fell in love? Even a horny skunk deserves a little good lovin'

[havocmom]

10. We'll always have Paris

::sigh::

[Lavender Brown]

11. She's back with her family (pic)

:)

[question everything]

12. Awww! Wonder whose lap she is sitting.

Welcome home Emily. It's gotten colder in the upper Midwest since you left.