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One of the strangest sights that I’ve ever seen happened recently when I was waiting for my flight at the Punta Cana airport in January. Our flight was 12 hours delayed so we spent a great deal of time waiting at the airport. While we were eating Wendy’s my mom noticed that a cat ran by. It was a little grey and black cat. Everyone around us was pointing and staring. Some people tried to pet the cat but it wasn’t having any of that. Instead, it was trying to get into the garbage to eat leftover Taco Bell, Wendy’s and Pizza Hut. The airport is open, meaning there are no walls. It leads directly outside so I suppose it wasn’t that unusual that a cat may have gotten in. A little while passed and suddenly I heard my mom say, “There’s another one!” This time it was an orange tabby running between the seats. This one was even more antisocial than the gray one. But people were laughing and pointing. Never in a million years did I ever expect to see TWO cats in an airport. We saw them a few times while we were waiting for our plane that didn’t show up until 1:30 a.m. The wait was long and tiring but seeing the cats made everything a bit more fun. And it gave me a great story to tell once I got back to Canada. Interestingly, there didn’t seem to be any cats at Pearson Airport in Toronto. Even the cats think Canada is too cold.

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