- Vinalay shared a tweet on May 10, containing a letter she wrote to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr., requesting she and her pet be rescued.
- The worker, whose other cat Yoda passed away in December 2020, shared how Jon was her only family in a foreign country, noting how pets “add life” when “homesickness sets in.”
- She lamented the embassy probably turned her down because they “have less appreciation on the importance of pets for people who have been away from home.”
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- Locsin then told Vinalay to call the Philippine Embassy in Myanmar to assist her.
- Vinalay and her cat joined 54 other Filipinos from Myanmar, Cambodia and Thailand in a chartered Philippine Airlines sweeper flight, which arrived in Manila on May 29.