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Cat Named Batman Caught After Five Days On The Run In An Airport

<div><p>Jessica Brown knows that her two cats have very different personalities. Lily is calm and well-behaved while Batman is wild, and likes to run around for no reason.</p><p>So when a TSA agent at Seattle's Sea-Tac airport asked Brown to let Batman out of her cage at a security checkpoint, she asked to be put into a private room. Unfortunately, the airport was understaffed and the guard told her that wouldn't be possible.</p><p>Of course, the moment Brown opened the door to Batman's cage, she ran straight up a wall and into the airport's ceiling. This was the beginning of a 5 day game of cat and mouse as the airport's staff chased Batman throughout the building.</p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Bm2-1.jpg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Bm2-1_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Bm2-1_GH_content_650px.jpg 650w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Bm2-1_GH_content_750px.jpg 750w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img><figcaption class="op-vertical-center"><cite>The News Tribune</cite></figcaption></figure></div><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><p></p><p>Brown was moving from Seattle to a new home in Washington, D.C, so she had no time to help the airport track down her pet.</p><p>To be fair, she had known from the start that letting Batman out was a bad idea.</p><p>"[Cats aren't] like dogs," she told the <a href="http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article138854983.html">News Tribune</a>, "if they want to get away, they can turn themselves into water." </p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/BM3.jpg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/BM3_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img><figcaption class="op-vertical-center"><cite>Seattle Times</cite></figcaption></figure></div><p>The airport put their two wildlife biologists - who spend most of their time keeping birds away from the runways - in charge of catching Batman.</p><p>They set up traps in the ceiling, but Sea-Tac is a 3 million square-foot airport, and Brown worried she would never see Batman again.</p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Bm1.jpg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Bm1_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Bm1_GH_content_650px.jpg 650w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img><figcaption class="op-vertical-center"><cite>News Tribune</cite></figcaption></figure></div><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><p></p><p>For 5 days Batman was winning this game of hide and seek. She even managed to steal food from one of the traps without being caught in it.</p><p>The biologists asked brown to record herself calling to Batman, and played the recording to lure her out.</p><p>Eventually she was caught, and after a checkup with a vet an airport employee escorted her to Washington for an reunion with Brown.</p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Bm4.jpg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Bm4_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Bm4_GH_content_650px.jpg 650w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img><figcaption class="op-vertical-center"><cite>Seattle Times</cite></figcaption></figure></div><p>While this story has a happy ending, Batman doesn't seem to appreciate it. She says she was "very angry," to be caught, and she's been grumpy ever since.</p><p><strong>Share this dramatic story with someone who loves cats!</strong></p></div>

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