If you give a cat a box, it will probably ask for some packing tape. If you give it some packing tape, it will probably ask for a stamp. And if you give a cat a stamp, it will apparently ship itself all the way from Utah to California inside an Amazon return package containing some steel-toed boots.
True story, though I embellished it quite a bit for the kids.
Here's what really happened:
Yes, someone's pet cat, Galena, seriously jumped into an Amazon return box just at the right moment, got taped up inside, and was shipped all the way from Utah to California with some steel-toed boots. There was a seam open in the box, so luckily Galena was able to survive the six-day trip which also featured mild weather — another plus in the ship-yourself-across-state-lines game.
A family in the US has been reunited with their pet cat after she was accidentally mailed hundreds of miles to California with a package return.
Galeana disappeared from her home in Utah earlier this month - prompting widespread searches for the beloved missing moggie …
'Galeana loves boxes, it's just part of her personality,' Carrie Clark, the cat's owner, told NBC's Utah affiliate KSL TV when explaining how her family's pet had come to end up so far from home.
The cat was eventually rescued from the large box, which also contained pairs of steel-toed work boots, by an Amazon worker who took her to the vet.
There, the cat's microchip was scanned and Ms Clark's contact details appeared. The vet then called to explain what had happened.
I think box-loving is part of every cat's personality, if we're being honest. Though getting trapped inside that box and shipped out to California is not — which leads me to believe little Galena had been doing some California dreaming before coming up with this escape plot.
Too bad for her, though, she won't be living that Cali life like she thought she would. She'd been chipped, and that means she was sent right back to her owner.
Ms Clark described it as the 'most amazing, insane news in the entire world'.
'I didn't believe her [the vet] at first and thought it was a prank,' she added.
Ms Clark and her husband then flew more than 1,000 miles to California to retrieve their pet.
'It was an amazing reunion! Galena instantly stopped shaking and relaxed in my arms when I got to hold her again.'
I wouldn't call it "amazing." The cat wasn't exactly ... enthusiastic about the reunion (because it is a cat).
Woman: "It's okay, baby!"
Cat:
This leads me to the end of my story: If you give a cat a microchip, it will never be able to live out its dreams of surfing the sick waves at Zuma Beach in Southern California.
I'll leave you with a local news story for extra laughs:
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