One of the world’s most famous train station cats was Tama: ‘Station Master’ at Kishi Station in Japan.

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Kate Middleton entertains children with maracas during a music session as she visits a parenting group for. Although the outcome of that particular incident isn't known, we later saw forum comments indicating that she was no more. Nala, who is often found sitting at the ticket gate, greets hundreds of commuters who pass by Stevenage station ever day.In fact, according to a 2008 study by Katsuhiro Miyamoto, professor at Kansai University's School of Accountancy, Tama’s purring presence at the station is estimated to have attracted 55,000 more riders on the Kishigawa Line than were expected in 2007, and during her full reign as stationmaster from 2007 until 2015, she contributed upwards of 1. In April 2006, the newly-formed Wakayama Electric Railway destaffed all stations on the Kishigawa Line to cut costs, and at the same time evicted the stray cats from their shelter to make way for new roads leading to the stations. In honour of what would have been Tama’s 18th birthday in 2017, she even had her own commemorative Google Doodle.

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No one seems to have taken much notice until it was too late; vets' efforts to put him on a diet were defeated by continual overfeeding by his fans.This claw-ver puss also does a lot of charity work and he enjoys raising awareness for local cats who need to find their fur-ever home via his Facebook page. To capitalise on the region’s Tama craze, in 2010 the railway hired award-winning industrial designer Eiji Mitooka – known for his sleek Japanese bullet trains – to completely redesign the train’s exteriors and interiors as a Tama-themed line.

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In February 2022, Network Rail posted photos on social media of this lovely lady — Holly, a stray who took up residence at the HOLYHEAD signal box (north-west Wales) some eight months earlier in 2021.Diddy transforms into Batman as he arrives at Halloween party in a Batmobile whileChloe Bailey channels Mrs. On October 28, 2008, Tama was knighted and awarded the title of "Wakayama de Knight" (a pun on "It's got to be Wakayama" in Japanese) by the prefectural governor, Yoshinobu Nishizaka, for her work in promoting local tourism. Stan loves being a lap-cat and his love of the change-well means anyone wanting to get some change will need to dig around under Stan’s fur to get their coins!

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After Tama's enshrinement in August 2015, Nitama was taken to the shrine to pay her respects and then formally installed as the new stationmaster. Join more than three million BBC Travel fans by liking us on Facebook , or follow us on Twitter and Instagram . I would like to think that these days we are more enlightened and such a situation would not arise, now that we know more about the effects of obesity on animals. In summer 2016 she contracted cat flu and, sadly, as quite an old cat she hadn't the strength to fight it and by late July it was decided best to put her to sleep. Shambles was on the brink of death and 'wouldn't have lasted a few more days', in his state, according to the cat advocate.She spent three weeks in the Medway Towns until the girl who had taken her saw a newspaper report about it and realised that wasn't a stray. The feline often leaves dead rodent as gifts for staff members since they adopted him three years ago when his owners relocated outside of the UK. Tama was born in Kinokawa, Wakayama, and was raised with a group of stray cats that used to live close to Kishi Station. Over the years, Tama’s sweet nature and photogenic features made her popular with the commuters, and adoring onlookers affectionately began referring to her as Kishi’s ‘stationmaster’.