Like birds, and
indeed many animals, cats often show a remarkable capacity to find their way
home from many, many miles away. Scientific explanation of this uncanny ability
varies; however, it is thought that it involves some combination of their innate
biological clock, the angle of the sun, and sensing the earth's magnetic
field. Some notable cat travelers include:
Sugar
This feline traveled 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) in fourteen
months to be reunited with his owners who had moved to their new home in
Oklahoma.
Cookie
In six months, Cookie traveled 550 miles (885 kilometers) back
to her home in Chicago, in 1949, after she was shipped to Wilber, Nebraska.
Howie
This plucky Persian traversed 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) of
desert, rivers, and wilderness in the Australian outback to find his owner when
she moved home.
Ling-Ling
This cat pursued his owner all the way from Sandusky, Ohio, to
the unknown territory of Orlando in Florida when he was left in the care of the
owner's sister.
Buttons
In 1983, a black female cat called Buttons crawled under the
hood of a neighbor's car and was not discovered until the driver stopped at a
service station in Newcastle, Britain, six hours later. They were 280 miles (450
kilometers) from their home in Great Yarmouth. Luckily (and remarkably) the cat
was unharmed and the driver continued his journey to Aberdeen with
Buttons as a passenger. Upon their arrival, an airline that had heard their tale
flew Buttons back to her owner free of charge.
Tom
Tenacious Tom traversed the United States, traveling
approximately 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers) from St. Petersburg in Florida to
find his owners in their new home in San Gabriel, California. It took him just
over two years and his journey is thought to be the longest by a cat on record.
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