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456 cans of Whiskas please. Just put it on my tabby

The online feline whose wandering led to squandering...

By Ben King

Published: 29 June 2001 18:00 GMT

Not many dot-com entrepreneurs have made it to be fat cats, but one real life cat called Boris nearly managed to buck that trend.

Boris belongs to Betty Richards of Cambridge, and he would have been smiling broader than his cousins from Cheshire if his online order for cat food had come through.

Betty turned her back while writing out an email shopping list and Boris wandered across the keyboard, adding 450 tins of Whiskas Chicken to the modest six-can order of cat food Betty was typing in to her email, The Mirror reported today.

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