{"id":522958,"date":"2026-04-10T07:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/522958\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T07:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:58:07","slug":"susie-the-cat-fans-say-statue-would-boost-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/522958\/","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":522959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-522958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}