I'll go ahead and post the whole story here, just in case they take it off their website in the future. This is some crazy story!
http://www.nbc6.net/news/15435838/detail.html
Meatloaf The Cat Comes Home
Feline Stuck In Shipping Crate For 3 Weeks
POSTED: 9:08 am EST February 28, 2008
UPDATED: 10:28 am EST February 28, 2008
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- After a three-week cross-country trip, Meatloaf the cat arrived at Fort Lauderdale International Airport Wednesday. And the cat probably learned a lesson that being curious comes with a price.
"I was pretty shocked. I didn’t think it was him,” said Amanda Kaufman, Meatloaf’s mom. “But it was him and he’s happy to be home.”
Kaufman was happy to once again hold her 1-year-old cat after the feline took a trip on the dark side. Meatloaf somehow got stuck inside a storage crate in Pompano Beach. That shipping pod ended up in Phoenix, Ariz.
An employee at the storage warehouse in Phoenix heard the cat meow. The worker unlocked the crate and Meatloaf took off running. Workers were able to trace the pod back to Pompano Beach where Kaufman was standing by the phone.
“After the first couple of days we were getting very worried,” said Meatloaf’s uncle, Daniel Kaufman. “We thought he was in someone’s home.”
Somehow the cat was able to survive without food or water the entire three-weeks he was stuck in side the pod.
This isn’t the first time Meatloaf has disappeared from home. In fact, he is known for taking hourly trips away from home.
The Humane Society of Phoenix put a tracking chip in Meatloaf so in case he gets lost again, someone will be able to track him down.