Lucky Cat and Friendly Gorilla

....are the two animals on the news today.

I had already heard about the missing cat Emily from Wisconsin (above, in the plane) which reappeared in Nancy, France, but now she's finished her quarantine and flew back to the States.

In early October she went missing, most probably after accidentally wandering into a container near her owner's house. Then she was loaded into a trans-atlantic ship that took 3 weeks to arrive in France (she had enough mice to munch in the cargo, apparently). Later that month she was found at a factory in Nancy, with her collar that had her address on.

Continental Airline has given her a $6000 Business Class ticket and a carer who flew her safely back to the States. "Miauw this wine is délicieux.....got a mouse to snack on?"

and now to a lady gorilla story
A 33 year old Lowland gorilla Coco in California understands over 1000 human words through sign-language. Once she even told her handler that she had tooth-ache, and that it was 9 out of 10 (that must be quite painful!).

Anyway, on today's news it said that 2 female ex-handlers of Coco compounded with their former employer after they were pressurized by their female boss to leave the job.

Coco asked the handlers through American Sign Language that she wanted to see their chest, but they refused. Their boss demanded that they do what they were told, for the better communication, bond, whatever.

Their boss explained that Coco, despite herself being a female, likes human female's chest and added "I had always complied with her request, but she got bored".

Lesson: employ more male handlers to avoid yet another law-suit.