She was fed and looked after by the staff, and the local Cats Protection branch looked after her health needs. She was very affectionate and often to be found purring and greeting people from her perch on top of one of the Oyster-card readers. When he retired from station life GC went to live on the chairman's canal narrowboat, where he had further adventures. Harry and Meghan's biographer Omid Scobie shares sneak peek at chapter about the British press in his new.

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Station cat Shag was said to have been resident at Grantham for 'well over 17 years', thus arriving in 1983 or earlier, but information about him is rather scant and we have no picture. ROCHDALE box acquired Kipper in July 1989, when he was found near the level crossing by a different box on the line.This comes after a stray kitten named Shambles was nursed back to health by kind stranger who found him in a pile of trash. Ad Feature From luxury skincare to must-have make-up collections - get Christmas all wrapped up with dream gifts. Tiddles was a station cat from an earlier era; he lived at London's busy main-line Paddington station in the 1970s and became very well known to passengers, even boasting his own fan club. In 2009, Mitooka also designed a new building for Kishi Station, a small thatched structure in the shape of a cat’s head. Towards the end of his life he was taken in by Bluebell members, so when he died in July 2010 he was in a home environment and not alone.

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Stan loves being a lap-cat and his love of the change-well means anyone wanting to get some change will need to dig around under Stan’s fur to get their coins! She’s currently an employee of Japan’s Okayama Electric Tramway and serves as the acting director of the Okaden Museum. He arrived as a frightened and bedraggled kitten, but with the care and attention given to him by station staff he grew into a fine black-and-white gentleman. She has a big stash of food and is well looked after by the full time operations team in the week and the duty traffic managers and guards at the weekend. In August 2010, in honor of Tama's third year as stationmaster, the station building at Kishi was rebuilt with a new structure resembling a cat's face.

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On January 6 2011, Tama's fourth year as stationmaster was celebrated with a ceremony and her promotion to "Managing Executive Officer", third in line in management after the company president and the managing director.

He didn't seem to mind being stroked or admired, but apparently rarely bothered to rouse himself from his slumber!

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Rail and station cats come and go and it would be very difficult to keep up to date, thus many of the original accounts still reflect the position in 2010, but we have tried to update if possible and since then have also added a number of further entries as we became aware of 'new' cats — although of course they, in turn, can also become hard to update as time passes. Livingston is a 'new town' about 15 miles west of Scotland's capital, Edinburgh, and Livingston North is one of two railway stations there. They wouldn't come into the box except when someone appeared at the bottom of the steps, when they panicked.The cat who had been clever enough to look both ways before crossing rail tracks was sadly run over by a taxi on the station forecourt in September 2000; this was most unfortunate as he'd become deaf and didn't hear the vehicle approaching. Latest news is that on 02/02/2016 Felix, the Huddersfield station cat who is employed by TPE has been purr-moted to Senior Pest Controller and given a high viz vest. The emotional cry of murdered Yousef Makki's sister: I kept my promise mum… It took four years but now. His name reflected his nocturnal romantic activities, although on one occasion, in more polite company, it was explained away as being the state of his fur when he first came indoors: 'like shag-pile carpet'! Tama was born in Kinokawa, Wakayama, and was raised with a group of stray cats that used to live close to Kishi Station.