http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/27/cat.france.ap/index.html

APPLETON, Wisconsin (AP) -- When Emily the cat went missing a month ago, her
owners looked for their wandering pet where she had ended up before -- the
local animal shelter. This week they learned Emily sailed to France.

Lesley McElhiney now figures her cat went prowling around a paper warehouse
near home and ended up in a cargo container that went by ship across the
Atlantic Ocean and was trucked to Nancy, a city in northeastern France near
the border with Germany.

Employees at a French lamination company found her in the container, checked
her tags and called Emily's veterinarian back in the U.S., John Palarski.

"It probably had access to food and water," Palarski said.

"I doubt if it went three weeks without it. There must have been a lot of
mice on the boat. Even if it was in the cargo department, you would assume
there was water down there. She had to have something."

Palarski faxed the cat's vaccination records to French authorities to help
remove her from quarantine, but the family is wondering exactly how they
will retrieve the pet.

Emily will need a health certificate from France to return home, and she
will have to go through quarantine again on entering the United States,
Palarski said.

"The only thing we can think right now is buying a plane ticket," McElhiney
said.

"She already cost us some the first time we got her from the humane society.
She's getting to be an expensive little thing."

Hugs,

CatNipped