Missing Watsonville cat shows up in Canada 4 years later in great shape

One day a much loved cat disappeared from a Watsonville home and BooBoo’s owner thought she had gone forever. Four years and thousands of miles later, the gutsy feline resurfaced in Canada much to everyone’s surprise and is soon to be a jetsetter.

BooBoo’s owner Ashley Aleman said she found her on the streets when she was around 7 or 8 weeks old.

From the time she was a tiny kitten, BooBoo loved to wander. “She would go outside, she would go missing for more than a day, but then she would always come back,” Aleman said

“She had not touched her food bowl, not touched her litter box in about a week,” she said. That was four years ago.

Despite Aleman and her dog Oreo’s best efforts to find the adventurous cat, their search came up empty.

“She had not touched her food bowl, not touched her litter box in about a week,” she said. That was four years ago.

Then recently Aleman received a call from Canada. Employees at Guelph Humane Society in a city 40 miles outside Toronto. They found Aleman using the cat’s microchip to show her contact details.

Incredulous, Aleman exclaimed ‘how the heck did she get all the way over there?”

Employees at Guelph Humane Society rescued BooBoo and found her in good health and spirits.

“She’s really social, she’s very vocal. Any time you go into the room where she’s being housed, she’s the first cat that you hear,” Guelph Humane Society’s Melissa Stolz said.

Aleman thinks her adventurous streak may have influenced BooBoo to cross the continent as a hitchhiker or stowaway.

“We are having an animal protection officer drive her to Buffalo tomorrow,” Stolz said.

Aleman’s mom will go and pick her up. BooBoo will then enjoy one more long-distance trip, this time on an airplane.

“I wish I could have a huge conversation with her and just ask her what she was doing,” Aleman said.

“I’m just gonna hug her as much as I can and probably cry,” Aleman said.