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LONDON, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- A cat that inherited $834,000 has been moved to a safe place in London after a series of death threats.
"Tinker" was left a $650,000 home and $186,000 cash by widow Margaret Layne who died last year at age 89, the Mirror reported Wednesday.
But Layne's neighbors and the cat's trustees, Eugene and Ann Wheatley, have moved the animal to undisclosed quarters.
"He is safe now in a place in mid-Wales but I dare not say where exactly," said Eugene Wheatley. "After the news of Tinker's inheritance we got hundreds of calls from people jealous of his money. It was horrible."
Tinker had been a stray before Layne took him in.
"She didn't trust people -- she trusted animals," Wheatley said of Layne after she died.
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