MANHATTAN — Those sexy firefighter calendars showing handsome rescuers cuddling kittens, puppies, ducklings and really any baby animal prompt all kinds of reactions, including smiles, winks and wows.
A New York woman had a different kind of reaction, though, after bringing Buddy, her fluffy black cat with golden eyes, to a New York City Fire Department calendar shoot in Manhattan in January.
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It seems Buddy, nicknamed Big Sexy, ran under a fire engine during the shoot.
"He bolted underneath the truck. I was sure he'd come out within an hour ... after he got hungry," Buddy's owner, Leslie Silbert, told WPIX-TV.
But he didn’t.
"People kept believing I would find him. I didn’t give up," said Silbert, who adopted Big Sexy in 2017 from an animal shelter.
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She gave him the nickname because he would snuggle up to her when she watched TV, WPIX reported.
A month went by and no Big Sexy.
But it’s a small world and when a fluffy black cat with golden eyes showed up in the Staten Island yard of a FDNY firefighter’s widow, Buddy was soon on his way home.
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The woman called a lost pets line and it wasn’t long before Silbert had Big Sexy back in her arms.
"I joke with friends, maybe he treated himself to a scenic ferry ride," Silbert said, in trying to explain how the cat got to Staten Island from Manhattan.
Silbert said she’s just glad Buddy is home.
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