This cat made history after being repatriated to PH during a pandemic
Every fur parent out there can agree that pets are considered as family. In the case of Karen Vinlay, an OFW in Myanmar, her cat was too important to be left behind.
Earlier this month, Vinlay took to Twitter her concern about the Philippine Embassy’s refusal of her request to bring a pet cat on the rescue plane that the government provided.
Vinlay posted a letter addressed to Department of Foreign Affairs Secretary Teddy Locsin. She elaborated her plea on the embassy’s denial, ‘Maybe they have less appreciation on the importance of pets for people who have been away from home just to make a living in a foreign land.’
‘For us, pets aff life to our lonely life when homesickness sets in from time to time. My pets helped me get through the struggles and adjustments in a foreign land,’ Vinlay continued.
Hi @teddyboylocsin, I’d like to ask help all the way from Myanmar. #ofw
#pinoy pic.twitter.com/YruNzQEe32
— Karen Vinalay (@kvinalay) May 10, 2021
A few hours after Vinlay posted her letter on Twitter, Locsin quoted her tweet and ordered the Department of Foreign Affairs to call Myanmar. He even said that “cat” was the magic word.
@DFAPHL please call Myanmar. @kvinalay you said the magic word – CAT. Cats are family. https://t.co/wZY5Nxyy1p
— Teddy Locsin Jr. (@teddyboylocsin) May 10, 2021
After Vinlay’s petition on Twitter, her cat named Jon Snow White was able to make it to the flight. The cat then made history as the first pet to be repatriated in the Philippines during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, as per Manila Bulletin.
Vinlay and her cat arrived in the country on Saturday along with 54 other Filipinos from Myanmar, Thailand, and Cambodia on a Philippine Airlines sweeper flight. The repatriation flight organized by the DFA was implemented to help stranded Filipinos in Myanmar due to the lack of commercial flights caused by the pandemic.
Vinlay was an Art Director in Myanmar for a decade. Due to the current military takeover back in the country that she considered her second home, she had no choice but to return to the Philippines.
Banner: Cat image from Twitter/kvinalay
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