Lucky cat does miracle mile, gets into college
Published: May 30, 2005
Lucky the cat won’t receive a diploma or degree this week, but not for lack of trying.
Like the folks of old, the determined cat traveled 20 miles one way to go to school last week.
Lucky rode from Easley to Greenville Technical College under the hood of Linda League’s car. Meredith, League’s 11-year-old daughter, had discovered their cat missing after arriving home from school last Monday.
Linda, a nursing student at Tech, searched the neighborhood, but Lucky’s luck seemed to have run out. “I thought she had either been hurt … and had gone off somewhere to die, or someone had stolen her,” she said.
Unbeknownst to the two of them, though, Lucky was checking out the landscape at Tech. She had spent the night hanging outside the nursing building, where League, a graphic designer, is pursuing her studies. The cat had sought shelter and hitched a ride after being frightened by a stray dog, her owners presume.
Lucky and her twin brother, Sammy, had wandered into the Leagues’ lives as kittens just weeks old. “They have lived outside with our golden retriever, and have never roamed too far from home,” League said.
“We named her Lucky because we felt she had guided her brother to our home. He has only one eye, so she has kind of taken care of him,” League said.
Yet after last week’s catty college experience, League said, the name fits for obvious reasons.
The cat clung to the car, traveled the interstate at 65 mph, survived a college parking lot for 14 hours, “and after about six more hours, we managed to ‘accidentally’ run into the person who found her,” League said.
Mother and daughter had spent the day putting up fliers around their neighborhood. Then, in a last-ditch attempt to find their pet, they posted fliers at Tech, remembering that Lucky had once traveled a block from their home under the car’s hood.
“We put a poster in the college concession’s area, one in the second-floor bathroom. And we were going out the door, when I told Meredith I needed to run by the first-floor bathroom.”
That’s where the two found Irene Brown, cleaning up. They shared the story of the lost cat, showed her a poster, “and she said, ‘Come with me; I need to give you something,” League recalled. “I thought maybe I had to get a permission slip to put up the posters.”
Instead, Brown led them to the dark office of Carol Gosnell, a Tech secretary. There the yellow tabby with white markings lay snoozing in an animal carrier, courtesy of Gosnell, who had fed her before leaving school for the day.
“I couldn’t believe it,” League said as her daughter showered love on her cuddly cat. “Then I thought, ‘You know, miracles do happen.’ “
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