Stowaway cat accidently mailed in returned package

A household successful the US has been reunited with their favored feline aft she was accidentally mailed hundreds of miles to California with a bundle return.

Galeana disappeared from her location successful Utah earlier this period - prompting wide searches for the beloved missing moggie.

She was rescued by an Amazon idiosyncratic astir a week aft jumping into 1 of the family's packages undetected.

The feline was successful bully wellness contempt having had nary nutrient oregon h2o for days.

"Galeana loves boxes, it's conscionable portion of her personality," Carrie Clark, the cat's owner, told NBC's Utah affiliate KSL TV erstwhile explaining however her family's favored had travel to extremity up truthful acold from home.

The feline was yet rescued from the ample box, which besides contained pairs of steel-toed enactment boots, by an Amazon idiosyncratic who took her to the vet.

There, the cat's microchip was scanned and Ms Clark's interaction details appeared. The vet past called to explicate what had happened.

Ms Clark described it arsenic the "most amazing, insane quality successful the full world".

"I didn't judge her [the vet] astatine archetypal and thought it was a prank," she added.

Ms Clark and her hubby past flew much than 1,000 miles to California to retrieve their pet.

"It was an astonishing reunion! Galena instantly stopped shaking and relaxed successful my arms erstwhile I got to clasp her again."

Luckily for the cat, 1 of the box's seams had been unfastened truthful determination was aerial to respire and the upwind conditions meant that she had not frozen oregon overheated.

The BBC has approached Amazon for comment.

Ms Clark, who described the acquisition of not knowing what had happened to Galeana arsenic "excruciating", told KSL TV that she encouraged everyone to microchip their pets and to "triple check" their Amazon boxes.