A pet cat in the UK has survived an eight-day ordeal in the post, after apparently falling asleep in a box.
Owner Julie Baggott did not spot her pet Cupcake when she packed up a box of DVDs and sent it off to a customer.
Eight days later, the female cat arrived in Worthing, West Sussex, after somehow surviving the nearly 420-km journey from Falmouth in Cornwall.
The customer was understandably “somewhat startled”, vets said, when the box of DVDs was opened and Cupcake jumped out.
After being contacted, an animal welfare charity collected the cat and took it to a veterinary hospital.
“When I realised she was missing, two weeks ago, it was the most horrible, scary feeling,” she told BBC.