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full screen The cat Rayne Beau disappeared in one of America’s largest national parks and was then found almost 150 miles away. Photo: Alexandra Betts Via AP/TT
The cat Rayne Beau went missing in one of America’s largest national parks.
Two months later he turned up near his home – after a 150 mile trek.
Cat Rayne Beau became frightened and disappeared into a wooded area during a camping trip in Yellowstone National Park in June. After four days of searching, his owner was forced to give up and went home to Salinas, California.
Two months later, they received an unlikely call: Rayne Beau had been found in the town of Roseville, about a 3.5-hour drive from the couple’s home.
How the little gray cat survived the nearly 150-mile trek from Wyoming to California remains a mystery. His owner thinks he was trying to get home.
– I really think he did the hike mostly on his own. His paws were in poor condition, he had lost 40 percent of his body weight and he had very low protein levels due to inadequate nutritional intake. So he doesn’t seem to have been cared for by anyone, says the cat’s mother Susanne Anguiano.
Rayne Beau has now been fitted with a GPS tracker.