SCIENCE FACT OF THE DAY • Cats 'n Dogs
...and nobody knows why!
There's a known case of a cat walking 2,000 miles across Australia to get home after its owners moved to a new house! I'm not even kidding. The cat, which was named Jessie, relocated with her owners from South Australia to a new home in the Northern Territory. After a few weeks, Jessie was nowhere to be found and her owners thought they'd lost her. More than a year later, the new residents of their old home found a strange cat hanging around, which turned out to be Jessie! Pretty amazing, right?
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2058630/Cat-walks-2-000-miles-Australia-home-owners-relocate.html#ixzz4wgfhyMKM
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