In what can only serve to validate that age-old myth about cats and their nine lives, a family's miracle cat has survived a cross-country excursion trapped in a box for two months while the Chelfs relocated from El Paso, Texas to Fairbanks, Alaska.
According to KTVA Alaska, 2-year-old Moosie was discovered to have crawled into a futon that had been boxed up for the family's move. Trapped inside a box for 64 days without food or water, the family says the cat survived travel by land, sea, and sky before being discovered at their new home.
Before leaving their house in El Paso, the family had assumed Moosie's unusual disappearance meant he'd bolted out an open door. Kymberly tells KTVA Alaska that the ordeal was "heartbreaking" for the family. She adds, "We tried everything to find him."
Moosie shouldn't have been found alive, but Dr. Hayden Nevill tells KTVA that his prognosis is positive. He says Moosie has some complications with his liver, but adds "his kidneys were working fine, which is really astounding." He's being fed through a tube for the time being, but he's expected to make a full recovery. "We started first with rehydrating him, and now our big challenge is we have to get his entire digestive system restarted," says Dr. Hayden.
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