https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/pet-cat-lost-in-yellowstone-travels-800-miles-toward-the-california-city-where-owners-still-had-hope-60-days-later/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDB0pTTJhlA
An incredible story reminiscent of Homeward Bound, recently came out from California—that a cat who had accompanied a family to Yellowstone National Park, was lost there.
Despite the distance of over 800 miles, the cats’ owners got a call two months after the sorrowful trip that their animal had been found in California, not Wyoming.
Benny and Susanne Anguiano have been on many camping trips with their cat Rayne Beau, and were confident that the naturally solitary and self-reliant animal wouldn’t get lost.
Visiting Yellowstone, Rayne Beau was startled by something and ran off into the trees not to be seen again, despite Benny and Susanne looking for him every day of their trip.
Time ticked by, and eventually, the couple had to make the abhorrent decision to leave.
“We had to leave without him,” Mrs. Anguiano told KSBW News. “That was the hardest day because I felt like I was abandoning him.”
60 days passed at their home in Salinas, Monterrey, when they suddenly got a call from an SPCA in Roseville located in northern Sacramento County.
They had a Pet Watch microchip, which the SPCA was able to read and gather the Anguianos’ contact information. Apparently, a woman had found the cat in Roseville and decided that since he was obviously a pet she would take him to the shelter.
Susanne contacted local news to try and share the remarkable story of Rayne Beau’s journey home in the hopes that individuals who may have taken him in, fed him, or saw him pass by, will come forward and enlighten the family as to the path their cat took on his long, 800-mile walk back home.