A pet cat has defied the odds and returned home to his owners in California after getting lost in Yellowstone National Park two months ago.
The adventure-loving feline – called Rayne Beau – apparently made the 900-mile journey from Wyoming after getting spooked during a family camping trip.
The forest at Yellowstone’s Fishing Bridge RV Park. Pic: AP
His owners, Benny and Susanne Anguiano, took Rayne Beau and his tprosper sister to Yellowstone’s Fishing Bridge RV Park on 4 June for the cats’ first trip to the forest.
However, the holiday finished awfilledy after Rayne Beau was commenceled and ran into cforfeitby trees.
Despite searching for four days, the Anguianos were unable to discover their lost pet, finassociate returning home to Salinas with weighty hearts.
Despite heading home, Ms Anguino said she never lost hope she would discover him and took a double rainbow she saw on the drive home as “a sign” he would be OK.
Rayne Beau and Starr Jasmyn snuggling in Salinas (Susanne Anguiano via AP)
In August, the Anguianos getd a surpascfinish phone call from Rayne Beau’s microchip company to increate them their pet was defended and well at the Society For The Prevention of Cruelty To Animals (SPCA) in Roseville, California.
The animal shelter was cforfeitly 900 miles (1,448 km) from Yellowstone, and fair 200 miles (322 km) away from their home.
A woman who first saw Rayne Beau wandering the streets of the northern California city fed him and gave him water until she handled to catch him on 3 August, taking him to the local SPCA.
Rayne Beau’s owners picked him up the complying day.
Rayne Beau enhappinesss the wonderful outdoors – from inside. Pic: AP
He’d lost 6lbs and had ‘beat up paws’
Ms Anguianos said he had lost six pounds, compriseing: “I depend truly that he made that trek mostly on his own. His paws were reassociate beat up. Lost 40% of his body weight, had reassociate low protein levels becaparticipate of inample nutrition. So, he was not nurtured for.”
It remains a mystery how Rayne Beau got to Roseville, and his owners are hoping members of the accessible may be able to fill in the blanks.
He’s now had has his wanderlust curbed. Pic: AP
Rayne Beau has now been fitted with a GPS global tracker in case of further midowncastventure.
His owners say they will practise “camping in their driveway to get him participated to it,” before hitting the road aobtain.
