Catty1
12-20-2011, 08:20 PM
A cat found earlier who sadly was frozen to death was believed to be George. Happily for George's family, this was not the case.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/offbeat/story/2011/12/20/edmonton-george-airport-missing-found-alive.html
http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/topstories/2011/12/20/li-george-alive.jpg
George, a cat once believed frozen to death at the Edmonton International Airport, has been found alive in a nearby town, three months after he escaped from his kennel in the Air Canada baggage area.
The Fort McMurray, Alta. feline turned up in a home in Leduc several days ago, hungry but in fairly good condition.
http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/topstories/2011/12/20/si-hope-and-george.jpg
Leduc resident Hope Gulseth found George several days ago. (Scott Fralick/CBC News )
The family who found George then got in contact with an Edmonton-based volunteer through an ad posted on the online site Kijiji. The volunteer then contacted his owner Vanessa Summerfield in Fort McMurray.
"It's unreal," Summerfield told CBC Radio's Kim Trynacity. "I don't even know what to think right now."
The discovery is a happy end to a story that's taken many turns since George escaped from his kennel on Sept. 23 while ground crews at Edmonton International Airport unloaded bags from an Air Canada flight from Fort McMurray.
Two months later, the airline told Summerfield that he had been found dead, the victim of the extreme cold weather that hit the Edmonton area in mid-November.
But then an Edmonton veterinarian determined that the dead cat was a female who possibly just had kittens.
George, of course, is a male.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/offbeat/story/2011/12/20/edmonton-george-airport-missing-found-alive.html
http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/topstories/2011/12/20/li-george-alive.jpg
George, a cat once believed frozen to death at the Edmonton International Airport, has been found alive in a nearby town, three months after he escaped from his kennel in the Air Canada baggage area.
The Fort McMurray, Alta. feline turned up in a home in Leduc several days ago, hungry but in fairly good condition.
http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/topstories/2011/12/20/si-hope-and-george.jpg
Leduc resident Hope Gulseth found George several days ago. (Scott Fralick/CBC News )
The family who found George then got in contact with an Edmonton-based volunteer through an ad posted on the online site Kijiji. The volunteer then contacted his owner Vanessa Summerfield in Fort McMurray.
"It's unreal," Summerfield told CBC Radio's Kim Trynacity. "I don't even know what to think right now."
The discovery is a happy end to a story that's taken many turns since George escaped from his kennel on Sept. 23 while ground crews at Edmonton International Airport unloaded bags from an Air Canada flight from Fort McMurray.
Two months later, the airline told Summerfield that he had been found dead, the victim of the extreme cold weather that hit the Edmonton area in mid-November.
But then an Edmonton veterinarian determined that the dead cat was a female who possibly just had kittens.
George, of course, is a male.