Yahoo – AFP, 4 january 2013
The story
of a cat who visits his master's tomb and brings him little presents on an
almost daily basis a year after the man's death has moved the inhabitants of a
village in central Italy.
"He
brings little twigs, leaves, toothpicks, plastic cups. A bit of everything
really," Renzo Iozzelli's widow Ada told AFP on Friday from Montagnana, a
mountain village near Florence.
"Sometimes
he comes with me and sometimes he goes on his own. The whole town knows about
him now!"
Toldo the
cat -- a grey-and-white three-year-old tomcat -- followed Iozzelli's funeral
procession last year and has continued going to the cemetery ever since, a
habit usually ascribed to dogs.
"He
loved my husband. It was something else! Now it's just me, my daughter and my
son-in-law and he's very affectionate with us too," she said.
Ada said
the journey to and from the cemetery each day had tired Toldo out in the cold
winter weather.
"He's
not going out so much these days. He's caught a bit of bronchitis so he's
sleeping next to me."
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