(22 Jan 2025)
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Melbourne – 22 January 2025
1. Owner Margo Neas carrying Mittens the cat
2. Close of cat inside pet cage
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Margo Neas, Cat Owner:
"Well, my son and I were traveling to Melbourne. We’ve moved there from New Zealand last week, just over a week ago, and we had the cat on the same flight, and that’s kind of quite a big process. So what happens is they get a vet, they get a vet check, and then we employed a pet moving company, which is, you know, honestly, it’s the best thing to do. And you know, looking back now, what a saviour moved my pet where I just can’t thank them enough. But, so they came to the vet with us, to the vet check and took Mittens away over to the international freight section and got a text to say: ‘look, she’s on the plane.’ We got on the plane, we got to the other end, the flight was a bit late, and then we sort of made our way with our luggage across to the international freight area. They said, ‘whoa, an hour max’. One hour went by, two hours went by, three hours went by. It’s kind of 10:30 at night by then. Nothing. But you can hear in the background that there are people on radios just going left, right and center, and we sort of thought ‘something is happening here, something is going on’.’"
4. Neas carrying cat
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Margo Neas, Cat Owner:
"And we sat down in this big boardroom, and they said, ‘look, we have located your cat, but it’s actually on the return flight back to Christchurch, New Zealand.’ And I said, well, my son and I, Jackson just looked at each other and went, ‘no, no, I didn’t hear it.’ And I said, ‘well, when did you discover that the cat wasn’t taken off off the plane?’ And they said, ‘well, we’ve only just discovered now,’ and I said, ‘how can this happen? how can this happen?’ Oh my God. But the first thing was, does the pilot know that the cat is still in the plane because it’s around sort of 7 degrees down there?’ So normally they would put the heat on, you know, to make sure that the cat’s OK. And they said, ‘look, once ground staff realized that the cat was back in the air, they contacted the pilot and he turned the heating on.’ So immediately I was relieved, you know, but still, we didn’t know. We didn’t, we didn’t know what sort of state she was in, and then all of these questions, how could this happen?"
6. Neas carrying cat
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Margo Neas, Cat Owner:
"And I said, ‘look, let Let’s just get her back on the plane, back to Melbourne. She seems OK.’ So, I had a really sleepless night. You cannot imagine. It was not a great start to our new life in Melbourne because we didn’t have the family, we weren’t complete."
8. Neas carrying cat
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Margo Neas, Cat Owner:
"Well, we needed to get her home straight away, which we did. There was a lot of meowing in there, in the car, that’s for sure. But as soon as she came out, basically, and look, she is not, you know, wasn’t an overly affectionate cat. She just basically just ran into my arms and just snuggled up in here and just did the biggest cuddles of all time, you know, and just, it was just, it was just such a relief."
10. Cat being let out from pet carrier on floor and walking away
STORYLINE:
A Maine coon cat named Mittens became an accidental jetsetter this month when her cage was overlooked in a plane cargo hold and she made three trips in 24 hours between New Zealand and Australia.
Mittens, 8, was booked for one-way travel with her family from Christchurch, New Zealand to their new home in Melbourne, Australia on Jan. 13.
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