Returned: Stunned owners Helen and Phillip Johns suspect Woosie lived on a diet of pastries after spending the last three years in a Ginsters pasty factory
Photo: Thomas Last – SWNS.com
No, it’s ‘pasty’ – not ‘pastry’ and definitely not ‘pasta’!
Daily Mail (UK) has the story:
Cat went missing for three years but was found hiding out in a Ginsters PASTY factory where it had piled on the pounds with a diet of pastries and sandwiches
- Tomcat Woosie disappeared in 2011 from the family home in Gover, Cornwall
- Owners Helen and Phillip Johns had given the seven-year-old up for dead
- But workers at a nearby pasty factory had been pampering the runaway
- The cat, renamed George, was fed a diet of pastries and sandwiches
- Once svelte feline has piled on the pounds during his three-year wander
Also see:
- Cornish Pasty Association
- Ginsters – official website
- Wikipedia: Pasty
- The Traditional Cornish Pasty [note: ‘Swede’=rutabaga]
