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Cupcake the Cat's Excellent Adventure
Have you ever experienced that awkward moment when you seal up a package and drop it in the mail … and you don't know your cat's inside. Sound far-fetched? Then ask Julie Bagott. She was placing DVDs in a package and didn't realize her cat Cupcake had fallen asleep inside the box. She shipped the box, and Cupcake went on an unexpected 260-mile trip. But there's a happy ending: the resilient cat survived the journey and has been reunited with her owner. "It was a miracle because she was alive," Bagott said.
Possible Preaching Angle:
The calling of God is kind of like that, isn't it? One minute we're enjoying a bit of sunshine, trying to catch a catnap, and the next minute we're whisked off on some unexpected journey that we didn't sign up for. Think of Moses minding his own business in the Midian desert, and then all of a sudden he's back in Egypt.
Source:
Lee Moran, “Cat Survives 8 Days In Box After Owner Accidentally Mails Her Across England,” HuffPost (3-27-16)