<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div></div><div>Courtesy of the London Informer at:</div><div><br></div><a href="http://westminster.londoninformer.co.uk/2011/10/spooky-coincidence-for-pimlico.html">http://westminster.londoninformer.co.uk/2011/10/spooky-coincidence-for-pimlico.html</a><div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------</div><div id="more" class="asset-more" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: 12px; color: rgb(40, 18, 46); "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-size: 12px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-size: 12px; "><h1 class="asset-name" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(14, 61, 130); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif; ">Spooky coincidence for Victoria cat</h1></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; ">With Halloween just around the corner, Victoria's animal hospital has had its very own spooky coincidence as a black cat was reunited with owners in an extraordinary stroke of luck.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; ">The cat, which had been nicknamed Spooky by staff at the Blue Cross Animal Hospital, Hugh Street, was admitted to the centre by a member of the public who had seen her get hit by a taxi driver.</p></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; ">She had suffered bleeding, a chipped tooth and a fractured pelvis following the accident in Queenstown Road, Battersea, on October 8.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; ">It was feared that as the cat was collarless and not micro chipped she would not be reunited with her owner and that the animal hospital would have to re-home her.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; ">However, living up to her nickname, Spooky's owner was found after her brother called into the hospital by chance just a few days later to see if they had found the fated feline.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; ">Louise Newman, 28, veterinary nurse at the hospital, said: "It is so nice that we can get her back to her owner, particularly as we find black cats are often hard to re-home.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; ">"People are often reluctant to take on a black cat as they see them as bad luck.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; ">"She is such a lovely gorgeous cat and everybody here loves her."</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; ">Spooky, whose real name is Susie, has three white hairs on her chest which makes her distinctive and enabled her owners to identify her.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; ">It was Edward Chamberlain, 30, a headhunter, and his wife, who found the cat and brought her by chance into the animal centre which the owners were registered with.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; ">He said: "We had seen the cat had been hit by a taxi driver.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; ">"He stopped but he had clients so we found the cat in a bush and put her in our car.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; ">"To be honest her injuries looked so bad I thought she was a bit of a goner but Blue Cross was just around the corner so I dropped her off there.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; ">"My wife, Amina, took a great liking to the cat so she called in on Monday to see how she was and on Wednesday we heard that they had found the owners.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; ">"Now my wife wants a cat of her own.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; ">"Perhaps this is a great story of karma - I have done my two biggest deals this week.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; ">"We are over the moon that the cat has been reunited with her family."</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><img src="cid:CF10C06A-1852-4735-8A40-6738E26EC508" alt="image.jpeg" id="CF10C06A-1852-4735-8A40-6738E26EC508" width="200" height="200" apple-original-width="200" apple-original-height="200"></p></div><div>------------------------------</div><div><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); 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