A cat who got lost in Yellowstone National Park has travelled more than 1,200 Km to find his way home after two months, using the animal’s microchip, an animal welfare group said.
Rayne Beau is a two-and-a-half-year-old Siamese (seal point mitted) cat. His owners, Susanne and Benny Anguiano of Salinas, California, were visiting the Wyoming park when he got lost, Susanne told CNN.
The recently relocated cat, whose name is pronounced “rainbow,” went missing on the first day of their trip to Fishing Bridge RV Park on June 4, Anguiano said.
“My husband is my hero because he went out into the woods every day for hours to look for him,” Anguiano told CNN station KSBW this week.
Rayne Beau ran into the woods after being startled and the couple’s attempts to lure him back with his favourite treats and toys were unsuccessful, KSBW reported.
“We had to leave without him,” Anguiano told KSBW. “That was the hardest day because I felt like I was letting him down”, he added.
The heartbroken pet owner said she never lost hope of finding her missing pet, according to KSBW. However, a month after Rayne Beau went missing, they adopted another cat to keep her sister company, Anguiano told CNN.
The couple had rescued Rayne Beau and his twin sister Starr when they were 11 weeks old, Anguiano said. Then, 61 days after Rayne Beau went missing, the couple received a notification that a cat with Rayne Beau’s identification number had been found, KSBW reported.
Rayne Beau was found in Roseville, California, about 190 miles from his home in Salinas. He was then taken to the Placer Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Roseville, the society’s executive director Leilani Fratis confirmed in an email to CNN.
“We hope everyone takes advantage of a microchip for his pets,” Fratis said. The cat was found in poor health by the woman who surrendered him, KSBW reported.
“We are in contact with the woman who found him in Roseville and took him in for a couple of nights before she was able to take him to the SPCA,” Anguiano told CNN.
In total, the cat travelled more than 1,000 miles from Wyoming to Roseville and on to Salinas, California.
The couple said they aren’t sure how Rayne Beau made it back to California, but they are grateful he is home.
“We are overjoyed he is back. I look at him every day and I am so grateful and I tell him, ‘Do you know how many weeks I have prayed to see that face again’?”, Anguiano said.
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