Cat Travels 900 Miles Back Home After Getting Lost in Yellowstone—Find Out How He Made the Journey
This cat traveled 900 miles alone after getting lost, returning home after two long months
Rayne Beau — pronounced ‘rainbow’ — a missing cat, has finally returned home to California after two adventurous months. It wasn’t without struggle, however, as Rayne Beau traveled nearly 900 miles to do so.
Rayne Beau, belonging to Benny and Susanne Anguiano of Salinas, California, traveled with them and their other cat to Yellowstone National Park in early June. But when Rayne Beau got spooked and ran off into the woods, it seemed that he would never return home.
The couple searched for four days, laying out Rayne Beau’s favorite treats and toys, hoping he would return to them, but on June 8, they had to go back home.
“We had to leave without him. That was the hardest day, because I felt like I was abandoning him,” Susanne explained. But it wasn’t without trying her best. Susanne continued to call for him and scan the road as their RV left Yellowstone’s Fishing Bridge RV Park.
On their trip back home, Susanne saw a double rainbow, which filled her with hope. “We were entering the Nevada desert and all of a sudden I see a double rainbow. And I took a picture of it and I thought, that’s a sign,” Susanne shared. “That’s a sign for our rainbow that he’s going to be okay.”
How did Rayne Beau find his way back home?
After two months without their cat, the Anguianos received notice from a microchip company that their missing Rayne Beau was at the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Roseville, California, which was only about 200 miles away from their home in Salinas.
A kind woman found Rayne Beau wandering the streets and decided to feed and care for him until she decided to take him to the local SPCA on August 3.
His owners picked him up the next day at the SPCA in Roseville, but it was clear that Rayne Beau had been through quite the journey since they last saw him. “I believe truly that he made that trek mostly on his own,” Susanne explained. “His paws were really beat up. Lost 40 percent of his body weight, had really low protein levels because of inadequate nutrition. So he was not cared for.”
According to Benny, Rayne Beau looked like he was six months old. “He was really little, all skin and bones… He was in starvation mode. So now he’s worked himself out of that.”
Precautions the Anguianos are taking to protect their cat
How Rayne Beau found his way from Wyoming back to California on his own is a mystery, but it’s nothing short of a miracle. Now that Rayne Beau has returned home, his owners are taking extra precautions to keep him safe.
Aside from microchipping both of their cats, the Anguianos have also fitted both of them with air tags. They even equipped Rayne Beau with a GPS global tracker. Although the couple enjoys traveling with their cats and allowing them to look out the windows of their camper, the Anguianos have no plans of taking their cats anywhere too soon.
“It was a very ugly feeling after we lost him,” Benny said. “We’ll have to practice camping at home and camp in the driveway to get him used to it.”
For now, Rayne Beau is safe at home with his owners and gaining back his strength after a treacherous journey, but the Anguiano’s are sending out a message to others. “Definitely microchip your cat or your pet and register the microchip online,” Susanne told KSBW. “We would have never gotten them back had that not happened.”
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