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SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. — When Candace Clow understood her old sofa went to the dump with her cat, Oliver, mistakenly concealed within, she was stressed the three-year-old feline might be a goner. Still, she never ever quit hope.
“If I hadn’t heard anything by the next morning, I was planning on going right to the dump myself,” said Clow, of Lennox Island.
What might have ended in catastrophe for her precious family pet ended up having a happy ending. Just prior to the sofa the cat was within was set to be squashed, the feline was found by a staff member who had actually found out about the missing out on family pet the early morning prior to his shift.
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Clow’s animals have actually been understood to vanish when visitors enter into your house, and concealing inside couches is a typical incident.
But when the old sofa was removed upon the arrival of a replacement, Clow had actually ruled out that a person of her cats would crawl inside it, joining it on a journey to the waste center at Summerside’s commercial park.
As it was heading out to the truck, the furnishings was scrambled and moved a lot Clow questioned a cat would still be within at all – not to mention without an obvious difficulty.
A couple of hours later on, erring on the side of care, Clow did a head count and understood among her furry buddies was missing.
“We tore apart the house,” she said. “Couldn’t figure out where he was.”
She called Furniture Gallery, who verified they had actually provided the sofa to the dump – by the time Clow called the center, they were closed.
“I was like, ‘Oh no, what do I do?’”
Desperate to discover Oliver, Clow made a social networks post asking individuals in Summerside to watch out. A few of her good friends who reside in the city even went and searched for him in the location, to no obtain.
“I was a mess,” she said. “(Oliver’s) brother had went missing in December and we still never found him. I was like, I can’t go through this again, I can’t lose another cat. I’m surprised I even slept that night.”
The next early morning, Clow received a message from among the staff members at the waste center. Her cat was rescued – discovered alive and well.
“I started bawling. I started crying right away. I was just so happy.”
Upon driving to Summerside and reconnecting with Oliver, Clow discovered that he had actually been spotted minutes prior to the sofa was set to be squashed.
“That’s how lucky he was.”
Although the cat was great, Clow observed he was a little aching and more stiff than typical – most likely from sticking onto the sofa to prevent being considered inside. Upon returning home, he was skittish and sluggish however after a couple of days, he went back to his typical self.
“I guess, lesson learned, to make sure that our cats are all accounted for if anything like that ever does happen again,” said Clow. “It’s something I’ll always remember. I’ll be telling my grandkids about this.”
Kristin Gardiner is a press reporter with SaltWire in Prince Edward Island. She can be reached by email at [email protected] and followed on Twitter @KristinGardiner.
