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Galena, a 6-year-old home cat from Utah, likes hiding and enjoying with cardboard.
Earlier this month, the mixture of the 2 made for a demanding journey in an Amazon package deal, a feverish search, a California rescue and a tearful reunion.
Her household continues to be ready to “reintroduce cardboard to her again,” owner Carrie Clark said Tuesday, because they don’t want to stress her out.
Clark got Galena as a kitten after her aunt rescued a pregnant feral cat. The American short hair with calico and Siamese coloring has been a constant companion and source of emotional support.
“I’ve been through a bunch of health things and she and I have gone through all of that together. And she’s she just has this extra great part about her personality that’s very loving. And she can tell when you don’t feel well,” Clark stated. “And she’s just really, really special to me.”
So when Galena disappeared on April 10, Clark was beside herself.
They searched the neighborhood, put up flyers and posted notices on Facebook misplaced pet pages in Lehi, Utah.
“Not knowing what had happened to her was pretty excruciating,” Clark said, “I cried my eyes out for seven days trying to figure out what had happened.” Clark additionally ran by means of all of the worst-case eventualities, questioning if the cat might have gotten out of the home and been nabbed by a predator or run over by a automobile.
Clark stated she obtained a “text that changed my life” on April 17, saying that Galena’s microchip had been scanned, so Clark knew she had been discovered someplace. Soon after, she obtained a name saying her cat was in California after being present in a field together with steel-toed boots that had been returned to an Amazon warehouse.
Clark’s husband had ordered a number of pairs of trainers, stored one and returned the remainder in a big field on April 10.
“We realized that that our sweet kitty must have jumped into that box without us knowing,” she stated.
Amazon workers knew simply who to name after they discovered the feline — co-worker Brandy Hunter, who rescues cats, Clark stated.
Hunter took the cat home and to the vet the subsequent day, the place the microchip was scanned.
Clark spoke with Hunter who “calmed me down and told me that my kitty was OK,” despite having spent six days in a cardboard box without food or water.
“I wanted desperately to be with her,” Clark stated. She and her husband flew to California the subsequent day, reunited with Galena on the veterinarian’s workplace and rented a automobile to drive home.
“We did what we needed to do because I just adore her,” Clark stated.
It was an intensely emotional week.
“I went from hysterically laughing that she was stuck like that — we mailed our cat — you know … just the humor part of that, to hysterically crying all within like five seconds,” Clark said.
The family was lucky to get Galena back, Clark said, in part because the weather was not harsh during the time the cat was missing, the box was torn at a seam, allowing her to get more air, and because Hunter who took her to a vet and had her scanned for a microchip.
Since word got out, Clark has been sharing her cat’s story, with advice to microchip your pets and to double-check your Amazon boxes before returning them.
Galena is a quiet cat, Clark said.
“She didn’t meow,” Clark said. “We would have loved for her to meow so we knew that she was,” within the field.
