Colorado Cat Missing 5 Years Turns Up in NYC

[Schrodinger's Cat]

Cute little story for the weekend, a cat that went missing 5 years ago in Colorado was found in NYC 1,600 miles away. Willow was brought to an animal shelter, where they were able to find her family thanks to a microchip implanted in her.

Still a mystery as to how she got there or what has happened to her over the last few years. The cat was found to be healthy, in good condition, and well mannered.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/15/n...ces-in-manhattan.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=general

My own cat was found by my father in a parking lot. He had been fixed, and was very affectionate and friendly, but he had no microchip and we were never able to locate his owners. He was a delightful addition to the household, but I have always felt bad that somewhere out there his family probably thinks he became roadkill or a coyote's dinner.

This is why I have both my cats microchipped!

 

[GlennB]

That's no short distance! Bless the little mite, but I suspect she got a lift from a friendly trucker along the way

 

[Information Analyst]

Claims of far-travelled cats are nothing new, but the difference now is that in some cases it can be proved that they really are!

One cat I shared my life with for many years appeared on the roof of the bay window under my bedroom window during a thunderstorm. I went outside with the step-ladders, brought her down (she didn't struggle at all), and told her to be on her way. By the time I got back upstairs, she was at the window again. I took her down twice more, and on the third occasion, said she might as well come in. She was already quite old, but impeccably behaved, and didn't look like she'd been living rough. We always wondered where she'd come from, but back then there was really no way to trace her previous human/s.

 

[Halfcentaur]

They still haven't' been able to contact the Colorado family who owned the cat. I would not be surprised to learn the cat murdered them all and high-tailed it to the Big Apple.

 

[Rolfe]

They still haven't' been able to contact the Colorado family who owned the cat. I would not be surprised to learn the cat murdered them all and high-tailed it to the Big Apple.

Wut?

Julie Bank, executive director of Animal Care, said the microchip led to the Squires family. “All our pets are microchipped,” Ms. Squires said. “If I could microchip my kids, I would.”
The Squires children are 17, 10 and 3, and they have a yellow Labrador named Roscoe, who knew Willow, and an English mastiff named Zoe.
Ms. Squires said Willow escaped in late 2006 or early 2007 when contractors left a door open during a home renovation.
Ms. Bank said Willow was healthy and well-mannered, and probably had not spent her life on the streets of Manhattan.
Animal Care and the Squireses were trying to arrange for transportation back to Colorado. In the interim, Willow may stay with a foster family in New York.
“The kids can’t wait to see her,” Ms. Squires said. “And we still have her little Christmas stocking.”

Rolfe.

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

Schrödinger's equation?

Mass of cat?

Probability of location?

 

[uk_dave]

She was abducted by aliens!!

 

[Aepervius]

She tunneled from Colorado to Newyork.

 

[biomorph]

If I could microchip my kids, I would

 

[Rolfe]

I actually posted that link in the "microchipping humans" thread several days ago. Of course, a microchip is nothing more than a non-detachable name and address tag, which needs a special reader before anyone even knows it's there. The only real advantage over a collar tag is that animals tend to lose their collars.

Rolfe.

 

[The Fallen Serpent]

Our cat, indoors only, hates collars and will injure herself trying to remove them. Microchips all the way.

 

[ZirconBlue]

She tunneled from Colorado to Newyork.

Not on purpose. She just missed that left turn at Albuquerque.

 

[theprestige]

New York?

If the cat can make it there...






... the cat can make it anywhere.






YEEEAAAHHH

 

[slingblade]

Additional info in another story reports the cat was found in Colorado by a ski-vacationer from New York, who took the cat home with him. I think I read the story at MSNBC.

 

[Halfcentaur]

Microchipping your pets? How can we let big brother win? Is this Orwell's future? Do you want your government knowing this kind of information? What's next? Liberty is dead.

 

[timhau]

Additional info in another story reports the cat was found in Colorado by a ski-vacationer from New York, who took the cat home with him.

Smart cat. If kitty wants to go to NYC, kitty hitches a ride.

 

[Schrodinger's Cat]

New York?

If the cat can make it there...






... the cat can make it anywhere.






YEEEAAAHHH

 

[TX50]

Indeed, especially when it's much cheaper to just tattoo a barcode onto their shaved heads.

 

[JJM 777]

a cat that went missing 5 years ago in Colorado was found in NYC 1,600 miles away. (...) Still a mystery as to how she got there or what has happened to her over the last few years.

This reminds me of a summer in... I cannot say this... okay it is a no-no thing to say, but... okay it was in Israel.



So there was a stray dog, which kept stealing the shoes of people who had the habit of leaving their shoes outside of their apartment door. Whatever the reason, did their shoes smell too bad to keep at home or what.

We often gave food to the dog, but one day we could not find it anywhere. A neighbour, who suffered from the shoe stealing problem, confessed that they had taken the dog in a car and carried it "far enough so it surely will not find back".