|
The Hicks family of Adelaide, Australia, before going
on a long overseas holiday, dropped their Persian cat,
Howie, off with their parents, whom lived over one thousand
miles away from Adelaide. Months later when the Hicks
family returned and was ready to pick Howie up, they found
out that Howie had escaped in his second week of visiting.
Howie was an indoor cat who had never even
seen a dog, and never hunted anything more substantial
than a housefly. The family was heartbroken, and searched
for him for a month without success. Having to return
to Adelaide, their home was not the same, but they could
not bring themselves to get another cat.
A year had passed, when one afternoon they
found a miserable looking longhaired cat, with a wounded
paw, who was filthy and starved. When their daughter Kirsten
came home from school and saw the cat, she stopped, then
ran forward screaming out Howie ! Howie !. The mother
was shocked, could this straggly cat be their pedigree
Persian? It was Howie.
In the twelve months it had taken Howie to
make the one-thousand-mile trek home, the pampered Persian
had somehow forded rivers, crossed two tracts of hostile
desert and fought his way through the vast wilderness
of the Australian outback. He knew where his home was
and neither distance nor danger could keep him from coming
back. A trip to the vet, lots of food and love, and soon
he looked again like the proud Persian king of his household.
|
|
|
| These
stories may not necessarily reflect the opinions of this
website or it's employees. |
|
|
|
