#ProjectB2: Strangers unite to form chain to get rescue cats home in 300-mile relay
A pair of rescue cats were driven 300 mile to their new home in a four-stage relay made up of strangers – who came forward after seeing their plight on Twitter.
Benny and Barney were driven for nine hours from Keighley, West Yorkshire, to Portsmouth, stopping off at Doncaster, Birmingham, and Oxford.
The cats were originally taken in by Keighley Cat Care rescue centre (KCC) after they were rescued from a home in a joint operation to take in 30 cats from a squalid home.
But after six months Benny and Barney had still not been adopted and an appeal was put out on Twitter.
Welfare officer at KCC, Angela Gray, said: ‘The problem was that they were so inseparable that they had to be re-homed together.
‘Then with the added complication that they are elderly and have some health problems, it meant that they were still here six months later and we were desperately wanting to get them to their forever home.’
Benny is 14-years-old and Barney is also thought to be in his teens.
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When the centre appealed on Twitter they managed to find a perfect home within a month – the problem was it was almost 300 miles away.
But amazingly, without any prompting from the centre, followers of their cat call on Twitter started to get together, creating their own group to orchestrate their journey down south.
Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2017/03/13/strangers-unite-to-form-chain-to-get-rescue-cats-home-in-300-mile-relay-6506943/
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