Curious cat travels over 600 miles in an Amazon field
Carrie Stephens Clark and her husband reunited with their cat, Galena, after she was discovered 650 miles away in California.
Cats love packing containers.
It seems Galena additionally fancies sneakers.
Galena, a curious cat from Central Utah, ended up taking an surprising journey throughout state traces earlier this month after climbing inside an Amazon bundle being returned, according to its owner, Carrie Stephens Clark, of Lehi, a metropolis about 30 miles south the Great Salt Lake.
In a Facebook put up, Clark mentioned on April 10, Galena mysteriously vanished.
“We searched each nook and cranny in our home, neighborhood, Jordan River Trail, and neighborhoods surrounding us for every week,” Clark posted on Facebook. “We put up flyers, plastered social media. Nothing made any sense!! I used to be past devastated! Galena is a large emotional help to me.”
Hope was fading quick.
Then got here the cellphone name.
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Seven days later, on April 17, Clark bought a name from a veterinarian in California who informed her Galena’s microchip had been scanned 650 miles away close to the town of Riverside.
“She had jumped/hidden in one in all our Amazon return packages with out us figuring out,” Clark wrote. “She was mailed to a return middle in California and trapped in a field and trailer for six days.”
USA TODAY has reached out to Amazon.
Amazon employee discovers stowaway cat in returned shoebox
Brandy Hunter, who works in a warehouse within the buyer returns division for Amazon, mentioned a coworker found the stowaway in a taped closed field behind a trailer full of things being returned to Amazon.
The field was giant and contained 5 pairs of labor boots, Hunter informed USA TODAY Thursday.
“She was completely terrified and distressed for positive,” Hunter mentioned, noting Galena was the “quietest” cat she had ever encountered.
“I used to be completely heartbroken to seek out this totally attractive cat, merely petrified and huddled within the nook of our coaching room,” Hunter wrote within the Facebook put up.
So she stepped into assist discover its proprietor.
Hunter mentioned when she took Galena to the vet to be checked out, the physician reported that apart from dehydration and weight reduction, the cat was in fine condition.
“She had nothing bodily unsuitable…nothing damaged (perhaps bruised tho) however the whole lot muscular/skeletal checked out simply tremendous and her temp was regular,” Hunter reported on social media. “We tried to get her to eat and drink however she was simply too scared.”
Clark and her husband traveled by aircraft to California to select up Galena.
“That’s when the magic occurred…her house owners arrived and joined us within the room! This second was completely wonderful,” Hunter recalled of the comfortable reunion.
‘Little and large miracles’
Last week Galena made her method home to Utah by rental automobile, Clark mentioned within the put up, including she and her husband traveled 1,400 miles to get Galena home.
“I’ve had her since she was a kitten. She’s a part of my the whole lot!” Clark informed USA TODAY Thursday. “We looked for her relentlessly for every week.”
Clark mentioned she could not consider when the vet known as to inform her they discovered Galena in California. “I believed it was prank!”
Hunter mentioned in her put up she was grateful “to be part of this amazingness and switch one thing so traumatic and unbelievable for everybody concerned into one thing constructive.”
To USA TODAY, Hunter emphasised the significance of getting pets microchipped. “I’m so so very grateful she was chipped and I used to be capable of find her house owners so quick! It would have taken us some time to backtrack that bundle!” she mentioned.
Carter mentioned she was “in awe of all of the little and large miracles” that took place on Galena’s surprising trek throughout state traces.
“The aspect seam of her field break up open so she may breathe, the climate was very best temperatures, she was despatched to Brandy’s Amazon facility who is aware of all about cats and knew precisely find out how to assist her,” Clark wrote. “Brandy, a microchip, and God’s grace are the explanations Galena survived.”
She too, hopes pet house owners will get their pets microchipped if they will. And “triple examine your Amazon packing containers!” Clark mentioned.
Natalie Neysa Alund is a senior reporter for USA TODAY. Reach her at [email protected] and comply with her on X @nataliealund.
