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| Meatloaf, a gray cat like the one shown here, was rescued after becoming trapped in a storage container. |
Meatloaf made his way across the country earlier this month after he wandered into a Portable On Demand Storage container in his Florida neighborhood. The container was sealed, then shipped to a Florida warehouse and eventually delivered to the PODS facility in Phoenix. Last week, an employee heard Meatloaf meowing inside the container and rescued the cat, the Phoenix KNXV-TV News reports.
Meatloaf was taken to the Arizona Humane Society, where he was neutered, vaccinated and implanted with a microchip. Shelter staff contacted his owner, Amanda Kaufman of Pompano Beach, Fla., to let her know where her cat had turned up.
Now, Meatloaf is ready to head home, thanks to a humane society volunteer who donated frequent flyer miles so Kaufman could travel to Phoenix. Kaufman was scheduled to arrive yesterday to reunite with Meatloaf. The two will spend the night at a local hotel, then fly home.
“After all he’s been through, we thought this would be the safest and most stress-free way for him to get back home,” Kim Noetzel, AHS spokeswoman, told the KNXV-TV News. “This time when he travels across the country, he’ll have the comfort of knowing that Amanda is by his side.”