[Vision2020] Dash the Cat Being Evicted From Airport

[Tom Hansen]

During the four years that Dash the Cat was at the Pullman/Moscow Regional
Airport, the airport was NEVER under terrorist attack, not to mention the
absence of rodents.

 

You'll be missed, Dash.

 



Dash - The ultimate in airline boarding security.

 

Tom Hansen

Moscow, Idaho

 

 

 "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving
safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in
sideways, chocolate in one hand, a drink in the other, body thoroughly used
up, totally worn out and screaming 'WOO HOO. What a ride!'"

 

-----Original Message-----
From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Tom Hansen
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 1:04 PM
To: vision2020 at moscow.com; vandal at uidaho.edu
Subject: [Vision2020] Dash the Cat Being Evicted From Airport

 

 

Courtest of today's (February 2, 2009) Moscow-Pullman Daily News.

 

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Dash the cat being evicted from airport

Employees seeking new home for 4-year-old flame point Siamese

 

By Erin Fenner, For the Daily News

February 2, 2009

 

Dash the cat needs a new home.

 

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Dash plays with a string held by Blanche Anderson at the Pullman-Moscow 

Regional Airport on Friday. Regional managers from the Transportation 

Safety Administration recently decided Dash can no longer live in the back 

room of the airport. Anderson is a federal security officer at the airport.

 

http://www.dnews.com/images/3019337.jpg

  

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Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport Manager Robb Parish said regional managers 

from the Transportation Safety Administration recently decided Dash can't 

live in the back room of the airport anymore.

 

She can't live in the terminal, either, because of the risk posed to 

passengers with allergies.

 

Airport employees are trying to find a good family who wants to adopt Dash.

 

The 4-year-old flame point Siamese has been a fixture at the airport since 

she was found as a kitten trying to board one of the planes.

 

She was barely alive, and employees took turns taking her to the 

veterinarian until she recovered.

 

Parish said Dash is a people cat. She acts bored when people are not 

around and often goes into a corner and falls asleep.

 

"She seems to enjoy it when the terminal fills up with people," he said.

 

TSA employee Kim Mordhorst said Dash is good with children because she 

recognizes she has to be gentle with them.

 

TSA employee Lee Zimmerman said Dash likes to chase people's pant legs and 

swat at them like she is playing tag.

 

"She has been a therapeutic cat for the passengers who come and go," TSA 

employee Blanche Anderson said.

 

Employees said Dash will be missed at the airport.

 

Zimmerman said there hasn't been a mouse in the back room since Dash has 

lived there.

 

He said families come to the airport just to see the cat and don't even 

get on a plane.

 

Mordhorst said people who fly into the airport sometimes bring her cat 

toys and treats.

 

Parish hopes to find Dash a home with an active family because she's so 

playful.

 

Mordhorst said Dash would be happy anywhere where she can be pampered and 

allowed to rule the roost.

 

Most airport employees are not in a position to take Dash themselves 

because they are renting or already have animals, Mordhorst said.

 

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Flying out of Moscow will no longer be the same . . . not without Dash.

 

Seeya round town, Moscow.

 

Tom Hansen

Moscow, Idaho 

 

 

"For a lapsed Lutheran born-again Buddhist pan-Humanist Universalist 

Unitarian Wiccan Agnostic like myself there's really no reason ever to go 

to work."

 

- Roy Zimmerman

 

 

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