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Holly the Cat's Incredible Journey

Things I Never thought I'd Blog

Justin Green

Updated Apr. 21, 2017 12:24PM ET / Published Jan. 20, 2013 3:43PM ET 

Well this is bizarre. Today's New York Times features the story Holly the Cat, a Florida feline who traveled nearly 200 miles to get home. (Giving me an excuse to post the trailer for Homeward Bound on the blog!)

Nobody knows how it happened: an indoor housecat who got lost on a family excursion managing, after two months and about 200 miles, to return to her hometown.

Even scientists are baffled by how Holly, a 4-year-old tortoiseshell who in early November became separated from Jacob and Bonnie Richter at an R.V. rally in Daytona Beach, Fla., appeared on New Year’s Eve — staggering, weak and emaciated — in a backyard about a mile from the Richters’ house in West Palm Beach.

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