Commuter cat is star of bus route -BBC News

[to2leo]

 

One in Japan and now one in England!?!

 

Commuter cat is star of bus route

A cat has become such a well-known user of a Devon bus service that its drivers know where to let him off.

 

Casper has been queuing with other passengers to get the number three service from his home in Plymouth for months, bus company First said.

 

It added that he often sat in the queue and then quietly padded on board and curled up on a seat for the ride.

 

Casper's owner Susan Finden, 55, who picked him from a rescue home in 2002, said he had always been a free spirit.

 

Mrs Finden said she named her pet after Casper the Friendly Ghost, as he has a habit of wandering off.

 

 

“ I don't know what the attraction is but he loves big vehicles like lorries and buses ”

Owner Susan Finden

A spokesman for First said that drivers had been bussing Casper around for months, but Mrs Finden said she had only just found out about his use of public transport.

 

The care worker said: "He'd always go off and have a wander.

 

"Once I had to walk a mile-and-a-half with a cat basket to bring him back from a car park.

 

"He does love people, and I don't know what the attraction is but he loves big vehicles like lorries and buses."

 

A notice has been put up by First in the bus drivers' rest room in Plymouth bus station asking them to look after the rogue passenger if they spot him sneaking on board.

 

Story from BBC NEWS:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/8174850.stm

 

Published: 2009/07/29 13:25:59 GMT

[Guest ___]

My cat, is the same way. If she hears a school bus, she runs to the window to watch. In the event that instead of a school bus it is a truck, she growls at it.

[to2leo]

This just goes to show us that animals are smarter than we think!

[Bernard]

I've already forwarded Leo's thread to some friends of mine who also have cats. They going to love it!

[to2leo]

The bus company should make Casper its mascot!  Thanks Bernard, I am glad your friends will be able to enjoy this too!

[Guest ___]

That wouldn't be very British, though.

[to2leo]

Well judging from how empty that bus is, I think the bus company needs all the publicity it can get! 

[Guest ___]

What they need is a double deck articulated nuclear powered vehicle like in that movie, The Big Bus to get people interested.

 

image: wiki comons

[Darren Jeffries]

That wouldn't be very British, though.

 

ahem, cough cough, british guy over here!

 

Actually though, you are right, the only things that have mascots here are soccor teams. Highly unlikely that First would make the cat a mascot. However they are suffering in the recession, so maybe they could do with the publicity.

[to2leo]

Wow I never seen such a thing before?  Has anyone seen the movie, I wasn't allowed nor there in '76.

 

I can imagine Casper will take a really long trip if he gets on this bus!

[Guest ___]

I've seen that movie more times that I can count.

[angusmclean]

Read last week that the wee fellow was run over and killed

 

Angus

[to2leo]

That's too bad, Casper will be forever remembered!  :angel5:

[Guest ___]

Hit and run