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« Reply #100 on: September 05, 2009, 05:44:12 pm »


Harry the cat a Khandallah celebrity

By JIM CHIPP - The Wellingtonian | 5:00AM - Thursday, 03 September 2009

KHANDALLAH ROYALTY: Harry the cat pays daily visits to shops and businesses around Khandallah. — JIM CHIPP/The Wellingtonian.

KHANDALLAH ROYALTY: Harry the cat pays daily
visits to shops and businesses around Khandallah.
— JIM CHIPP/The Wellingtonian.


Harry the cat is a frequent visitor to many Khandallah businesses, but when he was banged up in the cattery, they came to him.

Harry goes walkabout in the north Wellington suburb on a daily basis when owner Dayle Wilton heads off to work.

In the early morning, the one-year-old Burmese turns up at the drycleaners to warm up on the press and get a drink of water. From there, he moves on to the PostShop to say hello to staff and customers, get another drink from his cup there and maybe have a nap on his rug there. He sometimes calls in on the hairdressers and he pokes his nose into the local cafes. On Sundays, he also likes to look in at the church.

When Ms Wilton went into hospital recently, Harry stayed with Iona Anderson at the Khandallah Vet Clinic boarding cattery and couldn't do his rounds. But it didn't matter; when word got around where he was, his friends visited him at the cattery.

"They've all been in to visit him and make sure we are taking good care of him," Ms Anderson said."He doesn't seem to have any fear at all. He has got all the positive attributes of a dog in lots of ways. He's got extremely healthy self-esteem."

Harry is very at home at the cattery because the clinic is one of his regular haunts anyway, she said.

Knowing Harry is a popular identity around the village, they put the word around that he was their guest for a time, Ms Anderson said. "He's okay, this is where he is, he's okay for visits. It's like royalty."

Post Shop owner Allen Boyle said Harry is popular with his clientele. "He comes up to the counter and sometimes pushes people away to get up onto the counter." Harry has shut down the computer system by walking across the keyboard, he said.

Post Shop worker have provided him with a water cup and a catnip-scented sheepskin rug to nap on. Hairdresser Julie Hutchinson said Harry calls in sometimes and the customers know him. "We have even got customers who have been sitting on the bench at the library and he climbed on their lap."

Ms Wilton was expecting to be back at home this week.


http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/local/the-wellingtonian/2825850/Harry-the-cat-a-Khandallah-celebrity
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