Talk:Dusty the Klepto Kitty

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Contested deletion

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because <replace these words with your reason>. — Carschmn (talk) 02:29, 6 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Dusty the Klepto Kitty has appeared on ABC, CNN, CBS, as well as numerous international news outlets and will be featured in the "Puss in Boots" DVD. He has 1000 followers on Facebook. A video featuring him on You Tube has 1 million views in 9 months.

This is not a case of a person just making an article about their cat. Sure, he's not as well known as Socks the cat, but he's probably more well known than Sockington and they both have articles here.

A simple Google search for him reveals numerous primary sources:

http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_17402344?nclick_check=1 http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/peninsula&id=8207456 http://annarbor.com/pets/dusty-the-criminal-klepto-kitty-steals-neighborhood-belongings-and-brings-them-home/ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/29/dusty-klepto-cat-humane-society_n_886722.html http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/855740-dusty-the-klepto-kitty-is-a-one-cat-crime-wave

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