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Cat General => General Cat Chat => Topic started by: Sam (Fussy_Furball) on October 13, 2008, 14:42:04 PM

Title: Ginger tomcat fed by every neighbour has died leaving street in mourning
Post by: Sam (Fussy_Furball) on October 13, 2008, 14:42:04 PM
A ginger tomcat who was fed at every home in a neighbourhood has died - leaving the whole street in mourning.

Residents were surprised to learn the cat visited 10 homes to eat and was variously known as Ginger, Atkinson, Dave and Fonzworthy III.

It echoes the children's tale Six-Dinner Sid, where each owner feeds the cat, thinking he belongs only to them.

Resident Tony Brown, 66, said: "It was only after he died that we realised how many others were looking after him.

"We put a sign up because he was so well known.

"Suddenly there was an outpouring of grief. Clearly he belonged to the whole street."

Locals have put poems, photos and memories of the cat at the spot where it liked to sleep in Holloway, Bath.

Mr Brown added: "You couldn't own him, he was his own cat. My epitaph for him is he was owned by no one but belonged to everyone."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/09/18/ginger-tomcat-fed-by-every-neighbour-has-died-leaving-street-in-mourning-115875-20741462/
Title: Re: Ginger tomcat fed by every neighbour has died leaving street in mourning
Post by: Dawn F on October 13, 2008, 14:46:21 PM
that made me cry
Title: Re: Ginger tomcat fed by every neighbour has died leaving street in mourning
Post by: JackSpratt on October 13, 2008, 14:47:18 PM
http://www.purrsinourhearts.co.uk/index.php/topic,18239.0.html

Is this the same cat?
Title: Re: Ginger tomcat fed by every neighbour has died leaving street in mourning
Post by: Sam (Fussy_Furball) on October 13, 2008, 14:49:48 PM
Ahhh yes I think it probably is  .... sorry about that I appear to have missed the earlier thread  :scared:
Title: Re: Ginger tomcat fed by every neighbour has died leaving street in mourning
Post by: JackSpratt on October 13, 2008, 15:13:39 PM
Hehe! I was just checking. Kind of hoping it wasn't; it's nice to think there's more than one cat this popular! ;)