There'll always be an England: Cat catches bus and goes for ride every day.

[Captain Hilts]

From the Torygraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5933325/Pet-cat-catches-the-daily-bus-for-four-years.html

Pet cat catches the daily bus for four years

Casper, which is 12 years old, boards the No3 service at 10.55am from outside his home in Plymouth, Devon, and travels the entire 11-mile route before returning home about an hour later.

...

He has been making the journey for so long that all First Bus drivers have now been told to look out for him to ensure he gets off at the right stop.

...

Susan Finden (corr), 65, a care worker who is Casper's owner, said: "Casper has always disappeared for hours at a time but I never understood where he was going. "I called him Casper because he had a habit of vanishing like a ghost. But then some of the drivers told me he had been catching the bus. "I couldn't believe it at first, but it explains a lot. He loves people and we have a bus stop right outside our house so that must be how he got started - just following everyone on.

...

[rug]

1. What a ratrace.

[Vidar]

2. I love English eccentricity.Thanks for the anecdote.

In America Casper would have been rasered or euthanized for its own good

[kiva]

3. Love the fact that the bus company put up a notice

for their drivers to look after Casper.

[hedgehog]

5. Syracuse airport used to have a deaf white cat that lived in the parking lot;

there were signs at all the exits warning drivers to watch out for him.

We still have Doppler, the weather cat:

http://www.cnycentral.com/about/bio.aspx?id=453

[meow2u3]

4. And he DIDN'T pay his fare?!

eom

[gmoney]

6. bloody socialist cats

always on for a free ride

[mwooldri]

7. Silly hooman! Fares are for people!

This is an assistance animal!

[Strong Atheist]

9. !

:spray:

:rofl:

[Captain Hilts]

22. Cats are Democrats, Dogs are Republicans - picture

[mwooldri]

29. If the cat's old enough, it's entitled to a bus pass.

Free buses for those aged 60+

I don't know what that is in cat years though.

[Captain Hilts]

8. I'll bet they've not seen a single mouse on the bus since the cat's been riding. nt

[pokerfan]

10. kinda reminds me of yesterday's Abstruse Goose

[crispini]

18. Obviously that person

did not go to O'Hare (airport from hell).

[Enrique]

11. I'm on ur bus n/t

[GoddessOfGuinness]

12. I think it's so cool that they let him ride...

Brings a tear to my eye. :D

[amerikat]

13. That is one handsome cat.

Yes there will always be an England.

[Brigid]

14. *Sniff*

He looks just like my cat Hamlet. He died a few years ago. I still miss him. :cry:

[Kat45]

15. I love that story.

I've seen it before. Beautiful kitty

[woo me with science]

16. Remember the other British cat who did the same thing:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-447527/Mystery-cat-takes-regular-bus-shops.html

Mystery cat takes regular bus to the shops
April 2007

Bus drivers have nicknamed a white cat Macavity after it has started using the No 331 several mornings a week.

The feline, which has a purple collar, gets onto the busy Walsall to Wolverhampton bus at the same stop most mornings - he then jumps off at the next stop 400m down the road, near a fish and chip shop.

The cat, nicknamed Macavity, has one blue eye and one green eye
The cat was nicknamed Macavity after the mystery cat in T.S Elliot's poem.


....

Since January, when the cat first caught the bus he has done it two or three times a week and always gets on and off at the same stops.

....

"I suppose he is the perfect passenger really - he sits quietly, minds his own business and then gets off."

[catzies]

25. My favourite version of that photo essay, courtesy of I Can Haz Cheezburger

(notice how I used the British spelling there? :P )

[woo me with science]

28. Very cute. nt

[woo me with science]

17. Then there was the Canadian dog who took the bus to escape coyotes.

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/04/30/Calgary-bus-driver-saves-dog-from-coyotes/UPI-94341241095152/


Calgary bus driver saves dog from coyotes

CALGARY, Alberta, April 30 (UPI) -- A Canadian city bus driver in Calgary is credited with saving a cowering young dog from circling coyotes by simply opening the bus door.

Dawn Hagel said she was driving Tuesday when she spotted the 16-month-old Australian cattle dog cringing beneath a parked pickup truck at the side of the road and two coyotes circling it.

Hagel, who owns two dogs herself, told the Calgary Sun she pulled alongside and opened the door.

"He was in the bus in a heartbeat -- he knew it was a much better fate," she said. "That dog was breakfast."

....

The dog is expected to make a full recovery, the report said.

[Captain Hilts]

19. Then there's Jack the Cat in NJ who chased a bear up a tree - twice.

Here's the best picture:

http://gothamist.com/2006/06/10/picture_of_the_4.php

Here's the best story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5067912.stm

[woo me with science]

20. What a great story and pic! nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

21. That is freakin hysterical! My cats HATE riding and would never do that. (Of course

they are inside kittehs, so they wouldn't do it anyway.)

[joeybee12]

23. This is great!

And what a handsome cat!

[SeekerBlue]

24. I love these British cats/buses stories

They pop up from time to time.

[Captain Hilts]

27. Because, in England, animals aren't cooped up in houses or cages. They get socialized

to interact with people, unlike here.

[Orsino]

26. He's reduced his carbon pawprint. n/t

[Muttocracy]

30. Lampo the train-traveling dog in Italy

a great children's book with photographs I picked up in a used bookstore.

[Odin2005]

31. that's a cool cat!!!

:D

[proteus_lives]

32. What an awesome story!

I'm so happy they let him do it!

[snailly]

33. That is so sweet! I love him.

[Robeson]

34. Love it!...

...thanks for posting...:thumbsup: