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BACK HOME AGAIN IN INDIANA
Here's a great story of how a kitty uses his mysterious
feline powers to find his way back to a former home...
It was in 1953 that an Army sergeant was transferred
from Kokomo, Indiana to another military base near
Augusta, Georgia. Naturally, he took his faithful
yellow tabby tomcat with him. Apparently the cat did
not approve of the move or his new southern surroundings
(maybe it was the kudzu!), for as soon as they got to
their new base, the cat disappeared without a trace.
The career soldier spent as much time as he possibly
could searching for his pet, but he eventually had to
give up. He shrugged off the loss of his pet as one
of the misfortunes of being in the military service,
and moving around so much.
Well, guess what? Yes! Three weeks later, much to the
sergeant's total amazement, he received a call from a
friend back in Kokomo, Indiana. He told him that his
yellow tom was hanging around outside the house where
they used to live.
The fact that the cat made it back to Indiana so quickly
was a remarkable feat by itself. What was even more
remarkable and almost unbelievable was how the cat could possibly have remembered the route home. You see, Tom had spent the entire trip from Indiana to Georgia shut up in a big box on an express railroad train.
"Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well."
- Missy Dizick
The catnip plant contains an oil called hepetalactone which does for cats what marijuana does to some people. Not all cats react to it; those that do appear to enter a trancelike state. A positive reaction takes the form of the cat snif- fing the catnip, then licking, biting, chewing it, rub & rolling on it repeatedly, purring, meowing & even leaping in the air.
