[Vision2020] Dash the Cat Being Evicted From Airport

Mon Feb 2 13:59:54 PST 2009

Of course the cat is a terrorist-it carries very sharp concealed weapons!

2009/2/2 Dan Carscallen <areaman at moscow.com>:
> Saundra, and vizzz peeps,
>
> Dash pretty much has free run of the terminal.  I was there the other day
> picking someone up, and my daughter found the cat and they had some time
> together.
>
> I can understand how some people could have a problem, and I'm not much of a
> cat fan either, but the lack of mice is always a good thing.
>
> DC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
> On Behalf Of Saundra Lund
> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 1:51 PM
> To: 'Tom Hansen'; vision2020 at moscow.com; vandal at uidaho.edu
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Dash the Cat Being Evicted From Airport
>
> Thanks, Tom, for sharing this shining example of our tax dollars hard at
> work!
>
> If I'm correctly understanding, the concern seems to be allergic passengers?
> Last time I was at the airport, passengers weren't allowed in the back room
> -- has that changed?
>
> Or, have they mistaken Dash for a terrorist?  No, I guess that isn't the
> case or else she'd have already been subject to extreme rendition.
>
> Hey -- maybe I can get the TSA to ban passengers who wear way too much
> perfume & aftershave on flights . . . I know several people who suffer
> allergic symptoms from that kind of air pollution.  And, while I'm at it,
> let's get all those passengers & employees with colds & the flu & other
> communicable diseases banned from airports & flights -- they present a
> health risk to the rest of us.
>
> I'll be curious to see what the TSA has to say & I'll be happy to share
> their response  :-)  For others who may want to share their thoughts on this
> fine use of our tax dollars, feel free to let the TSA know:
> https://contact.tsa.dhs.gov/DynaForm.aspx?FormID=110
>
> KUDOS, BTW, to our local airport folks for their care of this wonderful cat.
> In today's society, it's far too easy for way too many people to turn a
> blind eye to the suffering of the least of us, but they didn't do that.
> We're lucky to have such compassionate folks at our airport!
>
>
>
> Saundra Lund
> Moscow, ID
>
> The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
> nothing.
> ~ Edmund Burke
>
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> -----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.
>
> ----------------
>
> 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
>
> ----------------
>
> 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.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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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