A Cat’s 200-Mile Trek Home Leaves Scientists Guessing

The New York Times ^ | 19 Jan 2013 | Pam Belluck

[Theoria]

Just Awesome----

[YHAOS]

"A Cat’s 200-Mile Trek Home Leaves Scientists Guessing"

Scientists don't "guess." Either they know or they don't know.

[FReepaholic]

...scientific dogma...

Oxymoron.

[a fool in paradise]

Cat thing PING

[Ingtar]

Cats rule. Dogs drool.

[a fool in paradise]

Scientists don't "guess." Either they know or they don't know.

Apparently today they wait until consensus is reached, then echo the talking points.

[4yearlurker]

Some people say that experts agree that Scientist’s are guessing.

[UCANSEE2]

Scientists don't "guess." Either they know or they don't know.

Wrong. Science is chock full of THEORIES.

[Slings and Arrows]

[skinkinthegrass]

enduring movies bump...The Incredible Journey (1963) - IMDb
www.imdb.com/title/tt0057180/

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993) - IMDb www.imdb.com/title/tt0107131/

[Slings and Arrows]

[Gefn]

That kitty cam IS awesome. Thank you for posting it.

Kitty adventures. Now we know what they might be dreaming about.

[353FMG]

Why not return the cat to the same spot where they lost it in the first place? Release it and track it by GPS if they really want to know the route it took.

It should be much easier for the cat to find its way back the secnd time around.

[JRandomFreeper]

Simple, it heard the can opener.

/johnny

[YHAOS]

"they wait until consensus is reached, then echo the talking points."

Good observation.

[YHAOS]

LOL!

[Monkey Face]

Perhaps I am one in a million, but I don’t find these stories “amazing” or “incredible.” We know where we live, and we know how to go from home (Point A) to somewhere else (Point B.)

If a cat (or dog) is aware of the trip that is being taken, then it knows how to get home. The strongest draw is LOVE! An animal will find its owners if given the slightest point of reference. Why? Because it, too, is one of God’s Creatures and will return to the love.

I’m never amazed by these stories.

We had a white mouser on the three-acre plot we called home, and periodically, my dad would get tired of the kittens we had to deal with, and take the mom-cat to Hell-And-Gone. And she would return. Without fail. No matter how far into the county he took her, she would turn up at the front or back door within a week or two, and pretend that nothing had happened.

Oddly enough: a neighbor boy shot her in the hip with an arrow, and my mother took her to the vet who told her he had never put a leg cast on a cat. My mother didn’t care. She even made a denim “boot” for the cast because of the season (late fall) and that cat learned how to use that cast to do her job. Which was killing mice.

They KNOW!

(I don’t think she ever had a name, but I loved her!)

[Carriage Hill]

Dogs have masters. Cats have staff.

[YHAOS]

"Wrong. Science is chock full of THEORIES."

Sorry. My fault. Didn't leave the /s flag.

[jpl]

I’ve always believed that animals are generally smarter than we tend to give them credit for. What they lack in higher cognitive abilities, they can often make up for in their primitive senses, which are far superior to those of humans.