Community Kitties wrote in rec.pets.cats.community:

[Francesca quietly disappears. Nothing much happens for a while,
then a noise can be heard approaching. A distant humming sound,
accompanied by a soft "thwap, thwap, thwap" noise. Moments later a
very large chopper appears. It find a clear space to land and
settles gently to the ground. As the engine stops and the rotors
coast to a stop, the side doors slide open. Francesca steps out
wearing a pilot's helmet, followed by Ranger. Aed and Morgana
approach cautiously.]

Aed: What kind of catacopter is dis? Why is it so big?

Morgana: An what is it used for?

FtF: Dis is a Katkorski KatterHauler. Iz da biggest caticopter dat
Katkorski makes, an dis one has a bunch of special features
designed by da late Harri Roadcat. First, you prolly noticed dat
it isn't furry loud.Da engine and rotors are special designed for
quietude. An take a look inside.

[Francesca leads them inside the craft.]

See deze seats? Dey's specially designed fur kitties. You can sit
in it like a hoomin seat. Or you can press dis button (paw shaped,
of course) and da seat back retracts, leaving you wif a nice comfy
kitty basket. An dis one is made special fur arctic work. When da
seat is in basket position, if it gets really cold in da cabin
(like if da catacopter doors are open), you press dis yellow
button on da edge of da seat, and ...

[Francesa pushes the button. The retracted seat back reappears,
rises a little bit then folds forward, making a roof over the cat
basket. Once the roof is in place, a transparent shield extends
from what had been the top of the seat back and folds down,
forming a completely enclosed kitty space.]

An da seat is temperature controlled. It has a cooler an a heater
in it, to keep da occupant comfy at all times.

Aed: Wow! That is very cool! But with all of these special kitty
seats, running cooling or heating for all of those seats must use
an awful lot of power. If the engine isn't running, how long can
the seats continue to heat or cool?

FtF: Dat's one of da coolest parts! Come back here, to da back of
da cargo area.

[Francesca leads them through the spacious cargo hold, back to a
closet set into a side wall. She pops open a maintenace hatch,
revealing a gleaming silver donut-shaped device with a steel
access hatch over the middle.]

Dis is a special fuel cell designed by Miss Amelia. I dun't know
why it never went into full production - it's furry useful. DIs
fuel cell runs on hairballs, and a single hairball can keep all da
seats fully powered for a week. Give it a dozen hairballs and it
could run a small city fur a munth! Even a hoomin city. Even a
city wif goggies.


[As the kitties look around the catacpter, they hear a loud humming
sound approaching. They look out the doors and see Sammy driving a
forklift loaded up with a pallet of supplies. They stand to the side
to leave room for the forklift, but Sammy waves to them and drives to
the very read of the coptor. A cargo door opens and a ramp deploys,
so that Sammy is able to drive the forklift right into the cargo
area. He drops his pallet and backs out, then Ranger appears driving
another forklift. Sammy and Ranger make a few trips each filling the
cargo section of the copter with pallets of supplies.


Before Sammy is able to leave after dropping his last pallet, Starr
da Dogg stops him and asks what he and Ranger just loaded onto the
copter.]

We'z loaded lots of stuffz! We'z got cold weather gear, tents, and
stuff like dat. And we'z got pallets full of food fur kitties an
goggies an penguins an sea birdies. An we gots some compact
construction equipment. You never can tell what we'z will need to do
once we get dere!

Iowna finds a kitty seat just her size and makes it into a basket. An
elder kittah not sure if it will stay heated asks to join her and
happily they curl in a warm puddle of snore/purr after all the
excitement of the loading is done.

Cash finds one big enough for him and a few more and sees a mommie
kittah with a few littles and asks her to join him just to be sure all
stay warm and she curls in.

Daisy-chan finds one by the window so she can watch the fishies jump if
they are close enough, and chat with the others.

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