{"id":372594,"date":"2026-04-10T07:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/372594\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T07:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:33:09","slug":"susie-the-cat-fans-say-statue-would-boost-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/372594\/","title":{"rendered":"Susie the Cat fans say statue would boost tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Susie moved from Upwey to Dorchester with owners Linda and Michael Crow when they came to stay with Graves, their daughter, in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After the move, they were inundated with calls from people concerned the cat was lost, so they changed her name tag to say &#8216;Susie &#8211; not lost, just adventurous&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Susie fans regularly post updates showing the cat making herself at home in pubs, shops and supermarkets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Local authors, photographers and artists have also produced a story book, postcards and a calendar of Susie to raise money for charity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Graves previously described the public response to her pet as a &#8220;nice thing&#8221;, adding &#8220;It&#8217;s allowed me to meet all sorts of people who I would not have otherwise met.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Comments on the statue planning application can be made on the Dorset Council website until 1 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Susie moved from Upwey to Dorchester with owners Linda and Michael Crow when they came to stay with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-372594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}