Cat Survives 36 Days In Box After Accidentally Being Shipped To Hawaii

Cat Survives 36 Days In A Box After Accidentally Being Shipped To Hawaii

Humans have been known to survive under the craziest of circumstances, but one family got a shocking but pleasant surprise when they learned that their cat survived after spending 36 days stuck in a box when movers accidentally shipped her to Hawaii.

via Huffington Post

When the day finally came for Ashley Barth and her family to make the big move to the Hawaiian island of Maui, they were heartbroken. Their family cat, Mee Moowe, had gone missing.

Mee Moowe, Barth told WAVY-TV, must have run away the day the movers came to pack up their Virginia home. Trusting the movers, New World International, could handle the move without her there, she left them alone in the house so she could take her baby to a doctor’s appointment, according to local news site Hawaii News Now.

Hoping that their cat would return, the family extended their trip three days. They waited in the empty house, but Mee Moowe never showed up. Eventually, on Sept. 12, the Barths had to leave.

Thirty-six days later, the family’s belongings finally arrived on Maui. As the movers began unloading the boxes, they heard a faint and muffled “meow.”

“The guy goes, ‘What was that sound?’ and my heart just kind of sunk for a minute,” Barth told WAVY-TV. “And I thought, ‘No, no way.’ And then we heard it again. And the guy said, ‘Was that a cat?’”

Immediately, Barth realized it was Mee Moowe, and “everybody started crying,” she told local news station KHON2.

After surviving more than a month inside a sealed box with no food or water, Mee Moowe looked strikingly different. Her eyes were crusted shut, she had lost half her body weight, and she exhibited all the typical symptoms of starvation, reports note.

Although Barth told Hawaii News Now that she blames the moving company for what happened to their cat, she’s happy that the smallest member of their family miraculously survived the whole ordeal.

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