Molly -an amazing story

1 Mar '07 11:49 am

Molly the cat has just made front page news on the 'Waikato Times 'newspaper.
Her owners took her to Pauanui ,on the Coromandel coast 4 months ago ,and she disappeared while there .They spent the weekend searching for her ,and sadly went home to Hamilton, again ,hoping she would be all right .
Her owner Mary-Lee happened to look out the kitchen window a couple of days ago ,and there was Molly on the roof of the garage ;she called her and Molly came and rubbed herself on owners legs .She had travelled 150kms ! ! ! Over a mountain range ,past many towns and crossed a couple of rivers.
Dixie.

1 Mar '07 11:59 am

Paua -shellfish like abalone
Nui -Big ,lots of
Here is an aerial view of Pauanui ,centre upper ,from where Molly travelled .(Our seaside home is in the area of the upper centre right ,but we sold it when we came here)
The mountain ranges in the far distance are what she would have travelled over on her 150 km journey .
Dixie.

1 Mar '07 8:10 pm

It's an amazing story - cats so often seem to know how to travel huge distances. It's an amazing talent, since they're so on the ground (unlike e.g. birds) that I can't see what there is to help them in the right direction!
Thanks Dixie - well spotted and well posted!

1 Mar '07 10:53 pm

I was SO very touched!! Such amazing stories about animals used to be narrated by my own parents , when I was a little girl! How can I forget! They concerned both dogs and cats...And a sad part of those stories was, that such animals used to die right after their "mamas"/"papas" died...Such an intimate, unfathomed relationship...

2 Mar '07 3:04 am

What a wonderful story! I can imagine how desperately happy Molly's owners must have been when they saw her again. Thanks for sharing it with us, Dixie. Smile

2 Mar '07 3:59 am

It is so wonderful when a "lost" animal finds it's way home over long distances and against all odds. I once saw a television special about how dogs (in this case) seem to be able to find their way home over long distances. The theory of the researchers was that animals actually form a sort of field of energy around their home that actually expands as they travel; so that they are able to be drawn back home unerringly. Sounds a little wierd to me, but who knows? They do form quite psychic connections with their people and many know before the owner arrives home that they are on the way. We have so much still to learn about our world.

6 Mar '07 1:53 am

Wow, Dixie! What a remarkable real-life story! Amazing! Thanks for sharing! Smile

6 Mar '07 12:16 pm

I've heard of this kind of thing happening before but it always amazes how they do it.
I can pretty much guarantee I couldn't find my way home without help. Smile

9 Mar '07 6:42 am

[quote="moosey"]It's an amazing story - cats so often seem to know how to travel huge distances. It's an amazing talent, since they're so on the ground (unlike e.g. birds) that I can't see what there is to help them in the right direction!

Bah, I know. We had a hitch-hiking cat, a siamese female. She had many other disgraceful habits but the hitch-hiking was the worst. My husband would arrive at work (20 miles away) and she would emerge from under his car seat with a smug little smile. That was bad enough, but she also used to get into cars and hitchhike with complete strangers, and I would get calls from many miles away saying " You don't know me but I've just found your *&*^&* cat in my car, with your phone number on its collar, please come and get it". When we moved out to the country it was much harder for her to get a lift.

The last time I saw Cassandra, was the day a motorist broke down outside our isolated house and came in to borrow some tools. I'm sure she eloped with him. I asked the police to trace the car's owner, which they did, and ask him if he had found a cat stowaway in his car. The policeman reported back "He said he didn't notice a siamese cat in his car, but you'd expect any normal person to be very surprised at such a very unusual question, and he wasn't. Not at all ".

9 Mar '07 7:50 am

If Cassandra has behaved true to form she'll have moved on - and moved on - and then moved on some more - since that helpful motorist didn't notice her in his car! What a funny story. But cats in general can be so stubborn, when they are set in their ways. I used to have a cat called Slow Puss who absolutely refused to eat dried cat food - and one month I decided to get tough - well, Slow Puss ate nothing in my house for nearly 6 weeks, and lost so much condition that it was alarming. Oops! Back to the supermarket for raw meat, raw meat and more raw meat.

Mind you, that month the other cats had the most amazing scientifically tested expensive low-salt all-natural vet-endorsed dried cat foods to sample! Yum! An expensive experiment!

Molly -an amazing story

Molly -an amazing story

Pauanui

Great Story!