# Schroedinger's Cousin's Cat **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 28, 2016, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schroedingers-cousins-cat/750449 "2016-03-28T11:52:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schroedingers-cousins-cat/750449/1 "2016-03-28T11:52:46Z")
You Don’t Know if you’ve Mailed a Cat until you open the box and find out. > **[Cat Survives 8 Days In Box After Owner Accidentally Mails Her Across England](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cat-posted-england-worthing_n_56f7b1fde4b014d3fe2353eb)** > > "I feel terrible about what's happened." > [@](#): > > **Cat Survives 8 Days In Box After Owner Accidentally Mails Her Across England** > > Cupcake is an incredibly lucky cat. > > The Siamese survived being stuck inside a small box for eight days after her owner accidentally put her in the post. > > Julie Bagott didn’t spot her pet snoozing inside the parcel as she packed it with DVDs at her home in Falmouth, in southwest England. Then she dropped the box in the mail. > > After traveling for 260 miles, Cupcake arrived in Worthing, West Sussex, on the other side of the country. > The package’s recipients were stunned to open the box and find the cute cat curled up alongside the movies they’d bought. > … > … > … > > Cupcake was reunited with her tearful owner on Saturday. “I feel terrible about what’s happened, you know,” Baggott told BBC South Today. > > “I mean, I put everything in the box and I sealed it straightaway, so I don’t know how she managed to get in there,” she added. “It was a miracle because she was alive, she’s managed to survive that awful ordeal.” ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schroedingers-cousins-cat/750449/2 "2016-03-28T12:28:18Z")
That is hilarious. Thank gosh it didn’t ended with a dead cat, simply an absent-minded owner who will clearly be giving Cupcake more treats. Isn’t this also an applicaiton of the Heisenberg Packing Uncertainty Principle, too? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schroedingers-cousins-cat/750449/3 "2016-03-28T12:33:47Z")
Was the parcel delivered on foot? I could walk from Falmouth to Worthing in 8 days! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Butterfly\_s\_Ghost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_butterfly_s_ghost/32/3462_2.png) [@The\_Butterfly\_s\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Butterfly_s_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schroedingers-cousins-cat/750449/4 "2016-03-28T13:42:40Z")
It could have been [worse](https://xkcd.com/325/). ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schroedingers-cousins-cat/750449/5 "2016-03-29T03:51:25Z")
How many of Cupcake’s 9 lives remained after that? ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schroedingers-cousins-cat/750449/6 "2016-03-30T00:45:32Z")
Thank god she didn’t pack Imagine Dragon’s “Radioactive” CD in there. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schroedingers-cousins-cat/750449/7 "2016-03-30T20:04:49Z")
Did I detect Imagine Dragon’s decay 6E10 times, or only 5E10? In all the postal confusion I’ve lost count myself. So do ya feel lucky, Cupcake? Well do ya? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schroedingers-cousins-cat/750449/8 "2016-03-30T20:10:54Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Was the parcel delivered on foot? I could walk from Falmouth to Worthing in 8 days! Google Maps says that a walk would take 81 hours, so 8 days sounds about right, allowing for breaks for meals and sleeping. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schroedingers-cousins-cat/750449/9 "2016-03-31T11:20:35Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Did I detect Imagine Dragon’s decay 6E10 times, or only 5E10? In all the postal confusion I’ve lost count myself. So do ya feel lucky, Cupcake? Well do ya? 😃 Probably.