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<p class=MsoNormal>Courtesy of KLAS-TV (Las Vegas, Nevada) at:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.8newsnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=12738733">http://www.8newsnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=12738733</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Professional Cat Catcher Frees Trapped Feline<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>LAS VEGAS - A woman living in the southwest part of the
valley has had some restless nights since her cat got out of the house Sunday
night. For four nights, her tabby Sammy hid underground in a flood control
drainage system. But with the help of a professional cat catcher, Sammy's
ordeal had a happy ending.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Sammy ran out of the house, ventured into a culvert and
didn't come out. "You can see from here," Sammy's master Joan Frayer
said. "It would have just been a natural thing for him to go right down
here."<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Frayer calls Sammy her baby. The orange tabby was trapped in
the storm drain, roaming since Sunday in a dark and deep underground maze. She
heard him meowing and crying at night.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Frayer glimpsed Sammy Monday night as she looked through a
drainage grate. "He just gets so close, but he doesn't make the turn to go
down," she said.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>So, Frayer called Mary Anne Jones to the rescue. The
professional feline trapper and Las Vegas Valley Humane Society volunteer has
saved more than 400 cats since last July. She uses food, traps and contraptions
all designed to lure cats like Sammy.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>"This is my seventh sewer," Jones said.
"We've got to coax him here. Joan is the only one that can coax him now,
because he knows her voice."<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Jones says the key to rescuing a four-legged critter like
Sammy is understanding a cat's behavior. "You just have to wait. It's a
waiting game. It just takes a lot of patience," Jones said. Jones is
optimistic her strategy will help this cute orange cat find his way out of the
storm system. "I do it, because I love cats. That's what it's all
about," Jones said.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>The plan worked. Late Wednesday night, Jones retrieved Sammy
from the storm drain, much to Frayer's delight.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>"He's just a special guy," Frayer said.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Jones says every rescue has its own challenges. She recently
sat 15 hours in a garage to wait for a kitten to come out of a car engine.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Seeya round town, Moscow.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Tom Hansen<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Moscow, Idaho<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"Some
mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps." <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>-Emo Philips<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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