Posts Tagged ‘journey’

A Tale of Two Cats

Last week’s post was very important and raised our consciousness. This week’s anecdote is a little less heavy and designed to lighten the tone of this section.

A recent news story concerning a cat being found 2,400 miles from home reminded me of an earlier account of a cat being found thousands of miles away from home in a foreign country.

In this first story, a cat was found in a cargo container thousands of miles from it’s home in Wisconsin. In September 2005 the curious feline wondered into paper factory and ended up in a paper barrel that was loaded onto a container destined for France. Luckily, workers on the other end recovered the cat in late October, one month after she went walk-about. She was identified her by tags and the workers phoned her veterinarian who in turn informed the owners.

In the more recent cat odyssey, a cat disappeared under odd circumstances and without a trace. The puss named Clyde vanished from his home in Hobart, Australia. Three years later and 2400 miles away, the frisky feline showed up at a vet’s clinic. He had been recovered four months earlier by a nurse in the town of Conclurry, in Queensland, Australia. She had taken him in and nursed him back to health. When she had to leave town and was unable to take him with her, she took him to the local vet.

He traced Clyde’s owners via a microchip that had been placed under the cat’s skin. It is a mystery as to how this phenomenal creature traveled 185 miles across water and 2,200 miles over land to his final destination.

As an avid cat lover, these types of stories always intrigue me. You just never know what a cat is thinking and if you truly are their keepers.