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Short Story Of Booboo's Life

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Friday, March 31, 2017 05:46AM
WATSONVILLE, California -- A California cat that was lost four years ago ended up thousands of miles away -- in Canada! Now her family is ready to bring her back home to Watsonville.

"My sister found her on the street and she was about maybe 7, 8 weeks old," owner Ashley Aleman said.

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.

Until one day, she didn't.

"She had not touched her food bowl, not touched her litter box in about a week," she said.

That was four years ago.

For weeks, Aleman looked everywhere, even brought out BooBoo's best friend, Oreo the dog.

"Let's take him on a walk and let's see if maybe he can smell her out," Aleman said. …show more content…

Or so they thought.

After four years, she showed up thanks to a microchip the Alemans had implanted. They knew BooBoo could get around, but they had no idea.

This map shows the distance traveled by BooBoo the cat, from Watsonville, Calif. to a city 40 miles outside Toronto. (KGO-TV)

"My mom got a phone call from a Canadian number, and she was like, 'I'm not gonna answer,'" Aleman said.

From the time she was a kitten, BooBoo's whole life was centered in Watsonville. But somehow, she managed to make it all the way over to a city 40 miles outside Toronto. That's more than 2,000 miles from home. And nobody's really sure how she did it.

"How the heck did she get all the way over there?" Aleman asked.

Employees at Guelph Humane Society took her in as a stray, in good spirits and well taken care of.

"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 that friendly nature lovers may have helped BooBoo cross the continent as a hitchhiker or

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