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The white and ginger tom cat, known as Twix, escaped from his carrier on a train travelling between Yekaterinburg and St. Petersburg on January 11. iStock..
More than 300,000 people have signed a petition calling for a Russian train conductor to lose her job after she threw a pet cat off a train, believing it was a stray...
Hundreds of people banded together in sub-zero temperatures to search for the animal, who was later found dead on January 20, a little over half a mile from the train tracks where he had been left.. Volunteers reported that Twix had perished from the severe cold and suffered a number of suspected animal bites...
In a statement, Russian state train operator RZhD said that it sincerely regretted the death of Twix, and vowed that it would change its rules on how employees should approach unaccompanied animals...
