What makes a CAT go ASTRAY?
I think cats may be the only animals that run away from home. The cat who lives in my garage moved in there after leaving his home – 2 doors away. His previous people bought 2 small dogs. The cat does not like dogs. Soon after the dogs were brought home, the cat started to appear in my garage, sleeping on my car, twirling around my legs. I talked to his other people, told them what was going on. They told me about the dogs. The cat chooses to live in my garage. I feed him, he has litter boxes and beds, but he won’t go see his other people any more. He is about 17 years old and in really good shape for an old cat. But yes, he ran away from his old home and found another more to his taste.
The most common reason is if they haven’t been spayed or neutered. Best story I’ve heard so far on this is an outdoor cat in Wisconsin who wandered away from home. After three weeks of frantically looking for her, her owners got a call letting them know she’d been found. She’d wandered into a paper factory in the area and had made it into a shipping container that was being loaded for shipment to a customer. She got locked inside, the container got shipped by truck to Chicago, then on a ship that wandered through the Great Lakes, through the St. Lawrence Seaway, out into the Atlantic, until it was delivered to the customer, who found a very hungry kitty inside. So the owners got a call telling them that their cat had been found. In France. (I’m not kidding — look it up on the web.) Continental Airlines heard the story and flew her back to Wisconsin. First class. (I guess they figured since she’d gone steerage on the way over, they’d give her an upgrade for the return trip.) Of course,
