Amazing Cat Goes Missing in Colorado, Found Five Years Later in New York City, Alive and Well

Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 12:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Willow, the Best Cat APFound via implanted microchip, she just wanted to try to make it in the big city Cat of the week, you guys. Cat of the year. Willow, an adorable calico, went missing from her Colorado home five years ago during some construction. In the years since, her family's kids have grown up, and the family moved some ten miles away. But somehow, Willow made her way a whopping 1,800 miles from the Rocky Mountains to the rat-infested streets (for her, that's probably nice) of Manhattan. This improbable story has a happy, techie ending: Willow was implanted with a microchip as a kitten, and was able to be reunited with her family this week. It's a hazardous trip, those 1,800 miles, filled with coyotes, foxes, owls, and all kinds of other large animals that prey on cats. We may never know what Willow saw on her journey east,...

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