08-12-2013, 04:42 PM
(08-12-2013, 04:30 PM)NightOwl Wrote: Just found out Hannah had a cat along with her on the camping trip, how crazy can you get? this was not a family campground where some people bring their house cat with them to the RV. Poor Hannah, poor cat what a freak he was, thank god she is safe and sound & the cat!
Taken from the Idaho Statesman August 12th 2013
by John Sowell
BOISE — Hannah Anderson has been reunited with her cat.
The 16-year-old brought her gray cat with her to the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness after being kidnapped from her Southern California home by James Lee DiMaggio.
Former Gem County Sheriff Mark John, who along with his wife Christa and ranchers Mike and Mary Young, encountered Hanna and DiMaggio in the wilderness near Morehead Lake on Wednesday, thought it was strange to see a house cat in the rugged Idaho backwoods east of Cascade.
Hannah was holding the cat when the foursome encountered her.
"The only reason you bring a cat out there is to attract a mountain lion or a bear," John said.
The cat's presence could have made the feline as well as DiMaggio and Hannah prey for any of a number of wild animals found in central Idaho.
The cat, whose name wasn't immediately available this morning, was brought to Hannah following her rescue Saturday.
Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2013/08/12...rylink=cpy
If she was abducted against her will (I think she was), I can imagine what a huge, HUGE comfort having that cat was to her.