Credit: SWNS
A lollipop lady has teamed up with a surprising colleague to help children across the road - her pet CAT.
Klara Remmington, 45, and Bandit, a five-year-old moggie, work a crossing together in Bushey, Herts., every weekday morning and afternoon.
The cat started tagging along a few months ago and is now a regular fixture.
School crossing patrol Klara, who has been a lollipop lady for eight years, says the children and parents at Highwood Primary love Bandit.
A lollipop lady has teamed up with a surprising colleague to help children across the road - her pet CAT.
Klara Remmington, 45, and Bandit, a five-year-old moggie, work a crossing together in Bushey, Herts., every weekday morning and afternoon.
The cat started tagging along a few months ago and is now a regular fixture.
School crossing patrol Klara, who has been a lollipop lady for eight years, says the children and parents at Highwood Primary love Bandit.
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00:00 Bandit first started coming to the crossing with me about eight months ago.
00:03 He did it just once or twice and I didn't think much of it.
00:06 He's an outdoor cat, he does what he wants.
00:08 And then it became a bit more regular.
00:10 And then it was every morning.
00:12 And then it was every morning and every afternoon.
00:15 And it started to get to a point where the children would say,
00:17 "Is Bandit here?" when he's not here.
00:19 "No, he's not come today."
00:21 "Oh, they'd be so disappointed."
00:23 And then when he started coming every single day,
00:25 they're so happy to see him and they all want to have a stroke with him
00:29 and he absolutely loves it.
00:31 He loves the attention.
00:33 He's really happy to see the children just as much as they are to see him.
00:36 And he sits there for the whole crossing.
00:38 And then when we're done and all the children are in school safely,
00:41 he comes home with me.
00:43 And he recognises when it's time to go in the mornings.
00:46 He sees me put my coat on and my hat on,
00:48 wherever he is in the house, and he'll come with me.
00:51 Sometimes he's fast asleep and I'll put my head round the corner
00:54 and I'll say, "Going lollipopping, Bandit?"
00:56 And he's wide awake instantly.
00:58 And he's out the house and ready to join me.
01:01 And he'll follow me up and do his job.
01:03 Bandit sits with me at the crossing.
01:05 He knows not to get too close to the road.
01:07 He lets the children cross safely and doesn't follow them into the road.
01:11 And I think he's helping them learn their Green Cross code.
01:14 He knows to sit at the side of the road and wait.
01:16 Some of the children have even likened him to Street Cat Bob.
01:20 They say, "It's not normal for a cat to do this. He's like a dog."
01:23 And I said, "No, this is just what some cats do."
01:26 He's not quite as famous as Street Cat Bob, but there's hope, yeah.
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