SUFFOLK, Va. — A cat has used up at least one of her nine lives after surviving a monthlong trip in a moving box with no food or water.
Ashley Barth told WAVY-TV her cat Mee Moowe disappeared in September as movers packed her family’s belongings for a move from Suffolk, Virginia, to Hawaii.
Thirty-six days later, the boxes arrived in Hawaii. Barth said she heard a faint “meow” as the boxes were unloaded. Mee Moowe was in one of the boxes.
Barth said the cat had lost half her body weight and could barely walk.
WAVY says a veterinarian office in Hawaii that treated Mee Moowe reported the cat exhibited classic symptoms of starvation.
State veterinarian offices in Virginia and Hawaii told WAVY it’s unlikely a cat could survive 36 days without food or water, but not impossible.
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