Animals are amazing

[samintx]

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/...later?lite=

[mrlynn]

When I was young in Maryland, we had a black cat named Puma. For some reason my mother took Puma over to someone's house about five miles away. Puma escaped, and disappeared. As with the family in the story, we assumed he was lost for good.

But about three months later, coming down the hill from the orchard, the opposite direction from the house which he fled, there came Puma. How he managed to find his way home, after being transported in a car, I do not know.

I speculate that during those three months he must have searched in a widening circle. Either that, or he had some innate directional sense.

/Mr Lynn

[OWC Jamie]

My brother's s/o adopted a chihuahua from a hoarder where it had been pretty much ignored of attention.
Three weeks ago his friend suffered a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm and died about a week later.
My brother found a new home for his dog about 7 miles away.
It escaped that night and was on their front steps that morning.

[space-time]

my grandfather told me he wen to the farmer's market about 20 miles away and took the dog in the carriage. after he was done trading stuff, he headed back home but the dog got lost at the marketplace. The dog showed up about a week later. But, since he travled to the marketplace by carriage he probably had a good idea of how to get back.

[Octave Doctor]

When I was in high school we had a roving tom cat we'd had since a kitten. We were used to him taking off for a week or two, but he always came back. Once he was gone for several months and we figured something had happened to him. One day he wandered onto the back porch looking for his food bowl--he was one dragged out cat at that point.

[mrlynn]

But. . . then there are the ones that don't come back. Our cat Pollux went out one night and never returned. We looked for him (or his body) all over the neighborhood, but no luck. We figure a coyote likely got him. Now our cats stay in.

/Mr Lynn

[space-time]

mrlynn wrote:
But. . . then there are the ones that don't come back. Our cat Pollux went out one night and never returned. We looked for him (or his body) all over the neighborhood, but no luck. We figure a coyote likely got him. Now our cats stay in.

/Mr Lynn

He shall return

[SDGuy]

space-time wrote:
[quote=mrlynn]
But. . . then there are the ones that don't come back. Our cat Pollux went out one night and never returned. We looked for him (or his body) all over the neighborhood, but no luck. We figure a coyote likely got him. Now our cats stay in.

/Mr Lynn

He shall return
That sounds familiar...

[mrlynn]

SDGuy wrote:

That sounds familiar...

Here's the song that was based on:

Yodeling Slim Clark: "The Cat Came Back":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzwaxnCFCHI

/Mr Lynn

[(vikm)]

Awesome!