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June 3, 2008

One well-trained cat

Wearing a stationmaster's cap of Wakayama Electric Railway, this nine-year-old cat named "Tama" sits on a ticket gate at Kishi station in the city of Kinokawa, in Wakayama prefecture.

Railway officials credit the cat with helping to increase the number of passengers who travel along the Kishigawa line by 10 percent over the past year.

Dubbed the "stationmaster cat," the female tortoiseshell just showed up one day at the small unmanned station in Japan.

(Photo: TORU YAMANAKA, AFP/Getty Images)

Posted by John Woestendiek at 9:20 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

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Thanks for devoting a day to cats!

She's beautiful! So glad she seems to have a good life there.

Posted by: Linda | June 3, 2008 8:59 PM

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About Jill Rosen

Jill Rosen is a reporter at The Baltimore Sun. During her nearly 20 years in journalism, she has covered news and features — including a surprising number of stories that involved animals. There were the dog Christmas carolers in State College, Pa. There were the hounds who toured with a production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The story of a preschool teacher at Baltimore’s Father Kolbe School who had to replace her class guinea pig, who died over the winter holiday. A harrowing tale of what it was like to make homemade pet food ...

Though her clean freak of a mother refused to allow her to get a dog, she has had a number of pets through the years, including goldfish named Bob and Fingle, a betta fish named Ichabod, a wild rat terrier named Wendel, who she shared with a roommate, and, currently, sweet, sweet kitties named Leo Sesame and Milo Pumpkin and a little rescued pup named Teddy Bean. She, Leo, Pumpkin and Teddy Bean live in Baltimore.

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