Amazing story of cat travelling over 5 miles back home

[ninja007]

I lost a cat in my yard 6 weeks ago, while transferring her into a holding cage for the night after getting spayed. She got out on transfer and ran away down the alley- My house is over 5 miles from where she lives, her colony. This cat never has been anywhere except at her colony. I just kept praying I'd see her again to catch her, take her to her home.

So I'm at that colony to feed the other cats last night- guess who I see? Yep- its her! crazy isn't it? How the heck did she find her way 5 miles plus west to her original spot?

 

[OldLady]

I lost a cat in my yard 6 weeks ago, while transferring her into a holding cage for the night after getting spayed. She got out on transfer and ran away down the alley- My house is over 5 miles from where she lives, her colony. This cat never has been anywhere except at her colony. I just kept praying I'd see her again to catch her, take her to her home.

So I'm at that colony to feed the other cats last night- guess who I see? Yep- its her! crazy isn't it? How the heck did she find her way 5 miles plus west to her original spot?

Homeward Bound: The Impossible Journey 1963. I cried my little eyes out through most of it. Very amazing how they do it.

 

[Dekster]

Did you take her home her or leave her?

 

[ninja007]

Did you take her home her or leave her?

shes a colony cat, her home is 5 miles away from my house, where she escaped- i took her home after the vet; she got spayed 6 weeks ago. Shr ran out of cage into the alley- never saw her again, until last night, 6 weeks, 5 miles away later..... her home is her colony 5 miles away from here. I cannot take anymore in.

 

[ninja007]

Did you take her home her or leave her?

shes a colony cat, her home is 5 miles away from my house, where she escaped- i took her home after the vet; she got spayed 6 weeks ago. Shr ran out of cage into the alley- never saw her again, until last night, 6 weeks, 5 miles away later..... her home is her colony 5 miles away from here. I cannot take anymore in.

So she travelled west for 6 weeks to get back. Thing is she knew how to get home somehow even though she doesn't know my area, where she got lost after escaping the cage.

 

[Dekster]

Did you take her home her or leave her?

shes a colony cat, her home is 5 miles away from my house, where she escaped- i took her home after the vet; she got spayed 6 weeks ago. Shr ran out of cage into the alley- never saw her again, until last night, 6 weeks, 5 miles away later..... her home is her colony 5 miles away from here. I cannot take anymore in.

So you left her with her colony and did not bring her home to your house when you found her?

 

[OldLady]

Did you take her home her or leave her?

shes a colony cat, her home is 5 miles away from my house, where she escaped- i took her home after the vet; she got spayed 6 weeks ago. Shr ran out of cage into the alley- never saw her again, until last night, 6 weeks, 5 miles away later..... her home is her colony 5 miles away from here. I cannot take anymore in.

So you left her with her colony and did not bring her home to your house when you found her?

She is probably tending a colony of feral cats. Spay and release so they don't keep reproducing, but don't make their life hell by putting them in a cage.

 

[Dekster]

Did you take her home her or leave her?

shes a colony cat, her home is 5 miles away from my house, where she escaped- i took her home after the vet; she got spayed 6 weeks ago. Shr ran out of cage into the alley- never saw her again, until last night, 6 weeks, 5 miles away later..... her home is her colony 5 miles away from here. I cannot take anymore in.

So you left her with her colony and did not bring her home to your house when you found her?

She is probably tending a colony of feral cats. Spay and release so they don't keep reproducing, but don't make their life hell by putting them in a cage.

I am just curious if she still brought it back again. I probably would have but understand those who wouldn't. I wish we had TNR here, but nope. You feed them feral cats and they catch you, tickets tickets tickets. I do it anyway. I just happen to know the hours of the police animal control so I do it before they come to work or after they get off.

 

[ninja007]

im a he....

 

[yiostheoy]

I have a local colony of about half a dozen adult cats that I have gotten the females spayed in.

It takes a couple of days of INDOOR care so they can recover from the harsh surgery a female goes through.

In our neighborhood there is a huge feral cat colony of about two dozen cats near an abandoned industrial complex. From there the feral cats span out.

I put cages (pet crates) out where they like to sleep, and eventually they get used to sleeping in the crates.

Then I quietly sneak up on the crates in the night and close the door, then I can take them to the city clinic for spaying at $20 each, and return them to the colony afterwards also.

It then takes a couple of days of indoor care so they can recover.

During this recovery phase I give them flea treatments with the liquid vials of flea neurotoxin.

I think eventually the cats are happy not to be subject to pregnancy anymore.

It's like a sorority girl on the pill. Happy pills. Happy sorority girls.