Missing cat from US found in France

[KKCondrey]

http://www.comcast.net/news/strange/...27/251837.html

I hope they are able to get her back soon.

[Kimberlina]

The story you linked doesn't seem to be there anymore (on the comcast page) so hope you don't mind if I provide this link:

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/10/27/cat.france.ap/

This is really very neat- how many cats can tell all the other cats they sailed to Europe and will likely make it home safely?

[kymom]

I live in Northern Ky and we found a dog that got stuck on a train that was from Florida and got off here! She was chipped but the owners didn't want to come get her so a nieghbor kept her. Well last week after two years my friend got a call from the people and they were going to be in town and wanted to come visit the dog!

[AmyMCGS]

That's amazing. I wonder what the poor cat must be thinking?

[bamamomto4]

LOL!

[UPSyours2]

Just incase anyone else wants to read the OP article it's still clickable for me so I copy/pasted it here! Sorry it didn't work for you Kimberly & thanks for the other link!

http://www.comcast.net/news/strange/...27/251837.html


Bon Voyage: Wisconsin Cat Sails to France

By Associated Press
Thu Oct 27, 10:05 PM

APPLETON, Wis. - 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, John Palarski, in Kimberly, just east of Appleton.

Palarski called the McElhineys Monday to tell them their pet was safe, if a little hungry.

"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 French authorities with the cat's vaccination records to help remove her from quarantine, but the family is wondering 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 friend of a co-worker is going to Germany next week, but that's a country away.

"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."

Information from: The Post-Crescent, http://www.wisinfo.com/postcrescent

Maybe Emily was chasing a & the went onboard the shipping container.

I had a Maine Coon Cat I named Mischief she fit her name really being mischievious getting into everything. My neighbor gave me her as a tiny kitten he found & since Ma had a few cats outside she was my indoor she slept on my pillow before I was allergic to anything! We lived by a factory & she'd go down the hill jumping into dumpsters & bringing me back she'd find. They mfg. eyeglasses Silor Optical Essilor Corp. of America http://www.essilorlogo.com/corpgstd.pdf

We found lots of lenses in the dumster & some frames & a whole bunch of half-used office supplies. Some binders were still usuable that had sales pages in. A few of the eyeglass flip close boxes we used for storing crafts in. I made a few into jewelry boxes decorated the top w/shells from the beach.

The company moved I'm not sure where but I think it's somewhere in Florida since my neighbor's relative worked in sales for them & traveled alot his family lived in Kentucky but his DD was out here visting the relatives she was a bit younger than me & loved HELLO KITTY stuff her dad would get her while traveling.

Jacques Stoerr, retired chairman of the board of Essilor of America Inc., will become president and CEO of Austin-based VisionWeb Inc
His career with Essilor began in the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s, when the company was know as Essel before it merged with Silor Optical in 1989.

[Michelle]

Oh wow, what a neat story

[UPSyours2]

http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/...wscolumn3.html

From the April 14, 2000 print edition
Commercial Real Estate

Essilor calls St. Pete home, signs long lease to prove it

Evidently Essilor Lenses likes the Tampa Bay area -- so much, in fact, that it recently signed a long-term renewal for its St. Petersburg headquarters.

The corrective lens producer will remain at its 120,000-square-foot facility at 2400 118th Ave. N. through December 2006. Financial terms for the new lease weren't disclosed.

Essilor, the area's eighth-largest private employer with 1,600 employees, moved to its current location in 1990 after relocating from Glen Head, N.Y., and brought its Varilux Lens Division from the San Francisco Bay area two years later. The company has workers in manufacturing, technical, administrative and professional positions in St. Petersburg.

"The city offers the best of all worlds -- a great business environment, a terrific climate and a wonderful place to raise a family," said Mike Daley, president, Essilor Lenses. "We're very happy to call St. Petersburg home."

Essilor Lenses plans to renovate the building's interior in two phases that will be completed next year.

Phase I will include office moves and minor improvements to the carpeting, lighting and wall coverings, while Phase II will include a more extensive expansion of office space to accommodate additional growth expected over the next few years.

Essilor manufactures lenses for eyewear at its 189,000-square-foot factory at 4900 Park St. N., marketing and distributing its products to wholesale optical laboratories and national optical chains.

Those lenses are then crafted into spectacle lenses according to specific prescriptions and sold to consumers through eye care professionals, optical retail outlets and ophthalmic dispensers.

Essilor Lenses is a division of Essilor of America Inc., a subsidiary of Paris-based Essilor International SA.

It was on Glen Head Road in Glen Head, NY 11545. Right across the street from Park Plaza shopping center where Waldbaums grocery store is now they built a Post office in the same location Silor was @ & a few other businesses. After seeing commercials for Varilux lenses I told DH he should get a pair of them...I never knew they had a Varilux Div. I should of known since they craft lenses nationwide & have many divisions in North America!