“It was an absolute miracle.”
Earlier this month, Carrie Clark and her family were devastated when their beloved cat, Galena, inexplicably went missing from their home in Utah. Initially, they believed that their indoor cat had somehow snuck outside and gotten lost.
“We had absolutely no idea what had happened to her. She is always by my side,” Clark instructed The Dodo. “It was really alarming to not be able to find her. We searched our whole entire neighborhood.”
Despite the household’s fixed looking, Galena was nowhere to be discovered. Clark started to concern the they’d by no means see her once more.
“My imagination went wild with worst case scenarios,” she stated. “We’ve had Galena since she was a kitten. She’s been by my side for six years. Our whole family was praying that Galena would be found.”
Per week later, the household’s prayers had been lastly answered. Galena had been discovered!
But not anyplace the Clarks would ever have thought to look.
Turns out, on the identical day that Galena went lacking, Clark’s husband had been getting ready to return a big field containing a number of pairs of labor boots they’d ordered from Amazon.
Unbeknownst to the Clarks, their cat had hopped into it to nestle some time — solely to be by accident shipped out with the footwear.
“[My husband] checked the box, but when he stepped into another room to get tape to seal the box up, that’s when Galena must have snuck into it,” Clark stated. “We had absolutely no idea that our sweet kitty had jumped inside that box before my husband taped it up.”
That’s how Galena’s misadventures all started.
Six days after going lacking, Galena was found 650 miles away, contained in the field at an Amazon processing facility in California — scared and confused, however very a lot nonetheless alive.
A warehouse employee named Brandy discovered her, saved her secure and later took Galena to the vet.
“After we had been searching for her for a week, I got a phone call telling me that a veterinarian had scanned her microchip in California,” Clark stated. “I got to talk to Brandy, and she said Galena was in this Amazon package they’d opened. I was in complete shock.”
Amazingly, after practically per week in a field being shipped by truck throughout a number of states, Galena was discovered to nonetheless be largely in good well being. All she was lacking had been her loving house owners. But that quickly modified.
“We booked an overnight flight to California to go and get our kitty cat,” Clark stated. “We love her so much. We wanted to bring her back home. When we got to the vet, we got to reunite with her.”
Brandy was there, too, to movie the second they had been reunited:
“It was an absolute miracle. We believe that God had a hand in saving our kitty,” Clark stated. “It was utter joy to be able to find her again.”
After that, Galena’s mother and father rented a automobile to drive their beloved cat again home.
It’s been somewhat over per week now since Galena’s ordeal got here to an finish, and she or he and her household couldn’t be extra relieved.
“She’s so happy to be here,” Clark stated. “We’re so grateful to have her back. Life has been really peaceful and wonderful having her back home.”
Clark does have a phrase recommendation for different cat mother and father, nonetheless:
“Please consider microchipping your pet, and triple checking your Amazon packages,” she stated. “Make sure there are no kitty cats inside.”
