Edmonton conductor sad but happy he may have found frozen kitty’s owner
EDMONTON — A conductor who saved and fell in love with a kitty that nearly froze to death under the engine of his train says he’s sad, but happy as well, that the cat’s owners may have been found.
Brad Slater, who works for Canadian National Railway, says a couple from Melville, Sask., contacted him Tuesday morning.
That’s where it’s believed the cat, who was covered in ice and missing part of its right ear, hopped underneath the train. Photos of the couple’s missing Tiger are a pretty close match, right down to its white back leg and lots of white under the neck and chest.
Slater says the couple are retired CN employees and the cat used to hang around the CN yard before the wife took him home in 2012 to be a companion animal to her husband, who was battling cancer at the time.