Cleocatra's Story
Once upon a time a very pretty white persian
was born in Cape Town, right down at the bottom of Africa.
Her breeder thought she was so pretty she showed her picture around the world.
A very kind lady called Sally in the USA fell in love with her and asked to buy her. We called her Cleocatra as she was from Africa.
As she had to have a rabies shot she could not be flown until she was 5 months old. So Sally and the breeder kept in touch and exchanged pictures.
Cleocatra at 12 weeks old
Eventually the day arrived when Cleo had to be shipped to the USA to her new home.
Picture taken an hour before she was shipped
Her breeder very sadly took her to the airport
on a Friday afternoon as she was due to fly overnight to Amsterdam where she
would be fed and watered and then put on a connecting flight to Boston USA the
next day to arrive on Saturday night 11pm -South African time.
We had arranged that Sally's sister in law would email the breeder to tell her
of the safe arrival of Cleo. The breeder anxiously downloaded her email only to
get the message that Cleo was not on the flight.!!
Pandemonium reigned as it was now 2am in South
Africa and no one from the airline could be found to find out where Cleo was.
Amsterdam was phoned and we were told she was not there and not on the incoming
flight either.
After a harrowing night we finally got hold of the airline to find they had
forgotten to send Cleo on her flight! She had sat on Cape Town airport for 24
hours and then was put on the next days flight to Amsterdam. Amsterdam was again
phoned and confirmed she was in the animal hotel and well. Apparently a security
guard had found her in a holding room at Cape Town airport and fed and
watered her with the food the breeder had fortunately attached to the
carrier
Poor Cleo finally arrived in Boston Sunday night at midnight (SA time).60
hours after leaving home. She then faced a 6 hour drive home with her new
owner. The poor thing had severe diarrhea in the car.
She settled down quickly in her new home tho' diarrhea continued to be a
problem and she had picked up a new habit of putting her whole face in her water
bowl. Her new owner said she sometimes seemed a little sad. So her breeder
recorded a little voice message for Cleo and emailed it to her owner. This is
what happened.
Apparently her eyes lit up and she got all excited.
Pretty soon Cleo went to her first show where she got 5th best Kitten!
Cleo being comforted by a friend
So time goes on and Cleo is very happy with her new caring owner and pretty soon she will go on show as an adult. We will update her story as time goes by.
5/6/2000
Cleo makes CFA Champion!!
