May 26, 2007: Vol. 30, No. 21
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Call off the hounds: DUMBO kitty found!
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del.icio.usCuriosity almost killed a cat named Dolphin last week when the feisty feline went on the lam in DUMBO.
But Dolphin is now back in her Jay Street home.
The five-day escapade began Sunday night, when Dolphin jumped off the second-floor balcony of the apartment she shares with her human companion, Noriko Shinohara. She told neighbors that she wasn’t too upset when she noticed Dolphin, thinking merely that she was “on an adventure for the first time in her life.”
But when the 8-month-old Dolphin wasn’t back on Monday night, Shinohara started to worry, so she put up flyers around the neighborhood advertising a $100 reward.
Several days passed, punctuated only by the the plaintive wailing of Dolphin’s pal, Kitaro Jr, who stayed at the balcony for five days, crying.
Finally, on Friday night, Dolphin — a lifelong mute — did something she’d never done before: she let out a desperate “meow!” that brought rescuers running.
Even after Shinohara found Dolphin hiding under a car, it still took three hours — and a can of Dolphin’s favorite food — to coax the feline back home.
And while Dolphin wasn’t injured during her days as an alley cat, she did lose some weight.
“She was a fat cat, but now she is very skinny and fit,” said Shinohara.
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