A calico cat named Willow, who disappeared from a home near the Rocky Mountains five years ago, was found on Wednesday on a Manhattan street and will soon be returned to her family, where two of the three children and one of the two dogs may remember her.
How she got to New York, more than 1,800 miles away, and the kind of life she lived in the city are mysteries.
But thanks to a microchip that was implanted when she was a kitten, Willow will be reunited in Boulder, Colo., with her owners, the Squireses, who had long ago given up hope.
“There are tons of coyotes around here, and owls,” Jamie Squires said. “We put out the ‘lost cat’ posters and the Craigslist thing, but we actually thought she’d been eaten by coyotes.”
Via NYTimes.com
May the cloud being save us if cats develop opposable thumbs and the ability to walk upright.
The poor thing was just trying to make it on Broadway.
Keep dreamin’, little guy.
crazy weird. lots of fun mystery there, cause cats can’t talk.
Most likely the cat was taken in by someone who either didn’t look for, or completely ignored, the lost signs and notifications, then moved to NYC, then let the cat get lost there.
@1 halfway there
http://youtu.be/bwJWtz1nYbg
@4 Well you’re just no fun.
I am glad they are getting their cat back. Let the memory live again!
I’m betting the cat sets out for NYC again within a day of returning to effing Boulder.
@5: And the other half of the way there.
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Shit.
Grant Brissey…closet Juggalo.
The lure of Broadway certainly is strong…
Did anyone check on Lisa Dank’s whereabouts five years ago?
If there’s one thing cats don’t do, it’s work.
I once rescued a cat off the side of the Panamerican Highway in buttfuck northwestern Costa Rica. I took her back to the States and had her for six years. If someone had been looking for here I have no idea, and then if that someone had found her up here it would have looked just as weird.
It’s pretty simple. People find and keep lost or stray pets, and they take them places.
Probably picked up by a transient as a pet and taken there.
The cat was eaten by a coyote. The coyote died while trying to cross the street (was hit by a bicycle and then a car who was trying to hit the bicycle). A feral cat ate some of the dead coyote – inadvertantly swallowing the microchip. It had calico babies (who were carried by swallows to New York) and one of those babies had the microchip.
@5 and 10…Let me be the first to welcome the coming of the new “super cat” who has arrived to take over the world. We offer you much catnip and lots of fresh seafood in hopes that you will be kind to us poor humans.
And sorry about having a bunch of you spayed and neutered..a game show host told us to do it.
@2 – She heard there was a musical called Cats!
Just think how many blowjobs that cat had to give to get all the way to NYC! Add to that only 1 out of 5 truckers even LIKE cat blowjobs. That’s determination.
The Mothership beamed her back down after she completed her assignment, silly.
Oh outercow @20, so great!
That calico is is a cool cat indeed, followed the jazz beat across the American vista to the hustle of NY to live a truant life with junkies and thieves, milking the system.
Ginsberg would be proud. MEOWL!
@23 yeah I heard he was playing the piano way uptown at some hep little joint under the name Felonius Monk when the fuzz caught up to him.
@20: I LOLed in my mouth a little just then, thanx.
Cats teleport. I thought everyone knew that.
They use magnets.
Harriet “Kitty” Tubman established a vast, complex kitteh underground by which kittehs travel the continent, thus escaping false imprisonment for accusations such as eating the family canary. They are given new identities, new lives of freedom, in the land of milk and tuna.