A fearless feline that ran away from its owners at Yellowstone National Park miraculously made the 1,000-mile trip back to his California home two months after he vanished.
Benny and Susanne Anguiano were on a camping trip with their beloved house cat, Rayne Beau, earlier this year when the cat got spooked and scurried off into the brush, the Salinas couple told KSBW.
The pair said they spent the rest of their trip scouring the Yellowstone forests looking for him, putting out his favorite treats and toys hoping to goad him back.
But after days without a trace of the cat, they gave him up for gone.
“We had to leave without him,” Susanne told the local station. “That was the hardest day because I felt like I was abandoning him.”
Sixty days later, back in Salinas, the Anguianos received a notification from the company Pet Watch with Rayne Beau’s microchip ID and location.
Their cat, somehow, was in Roseville, California, at the local SPCA — about 200 miles northeast of Salinas.
A woman in the area found him alone in the street, realized he was someone’s pet, and turned him in, the couple learned.
They have no idea how he made it 800 miles from Yellowstone to Roseville.
When they were finally reunited with Rayne Beau, he was not in great shape.
“He was really depleted,” Susanne said. “He probably didn’t have a lot of energy to even go further.”
They hope someone who may have come across Rayne Beau during his long journey home hears their story and reaches out, so they can get some clues on how he made it back to California.
“Like ‘we saw it here, we saw it there’ or even they took it in,” Benny said.
All “kitten” aside, Susanna urged all pet owners to microchip their pets.
“We would have never gotten him back had that not happened,” she said.