A British woman, Julie Baggott, accidentally mailed her cat Cupcake 260 miles from Cornwall to West Sussex earlier this month. Sure, sure. It was an “accident,” not “Cupcake’s nefarious plan to sabotage her loving owner.” Sorry, I just don’t trust cats.
Anyway, Ms. Baggott was just meaning to sell some DVDs, and Cupcake decided that the box would be a great place to nap, because #cats and #boxes. And before you ask, because goodness knows I did, it’s unclear whether or not the recipient was named Erwin Schrӧdinger.
Cupcake survived the eight-day trip to Sussex, although she came out severely dehydrated. The DVD recipient called the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, who took Cupcake to a vet, where she was treated before being safely returned to Cornwall. Upon her return, Cupcake was heard to say:
[The Independent]Original by Rebecca Vipond Brink