04/29/2024 – 20:40
A cat traveled hundreds of kilometers in an Amazon box in the United States to an Amazon warehouse after the animal got inside and the owners, without realizing it, locked it and returned it to the company.
Carrie Clark's cat, named Galina, disappeared from her home in Utah on April 10. As is common in these cases, she filled the neighborhood with posters announcing her pet's disappearance.
A week later, a veterinarian from Los Angeles, hundreds of miles from Utah, called the owners to tell them that the cat had been found in a box — along with several pairs of shoes — by an employee at an Amazon warehouse.
“I ran to tell my husband that they found Galena and she almost fainted when we realized she had jumped into a huge box that we had shipped the previous Wednesday,” Carrie Clark told KSL TV in Salt Lake City.
“The box was a ‘try before you buy’ box that contained steel-toed work boots,” he explained.
Clark and her husband immediately left for Los Angeles, where Jalena was rescued by Amazon employee Brandi Hunter.
The mascot was hungry and thirsty after six days in a cardboard box. “I could tell he belonged to someone by the way he carried himself,” Hunter said.
“I took her home that night and to the vet the next day, and the rest is history,” he added.
