Rat Steals Cat's GPS Collar, Sends Owner On A Wild Chase

When your cat runs away, that is one of the most horrifying moments. Whether you have a GPS on it or not, seeing that your cat is not home will freak out out. But what happens if your cat's GPS tracker is is going off, showing you that your cat is zooming around the neighborhood, while your cat is... right in front of you? Well, 520-year-old Andy Kindell just experienced that.

His one-year-old cat for whom he bought a £130 collar with a GPS tracking chip, came home one day without the collar and with a nasty injury on its paw, reports Aol. Naturally, Andy was relieved, but he still wanted to find the GPS collar and get it back, so, he went on a chase. And a chase it was, because apparently, the collar was "eaten by a rat."

Read more of the story, including Andy's reaction, and check out some hilarious pictures below!

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The map showed the tracker within in the collar moving in real time throughout Andy's neighborhood gardens, but whenever Andy went to the marked location, there was nothing there. The moving dot on the map appeared to be under Andy's feet - under the roads and the pavements. Soon enough, Andy realized he was following drain routes.

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Andy took his kitty to the vet, of course, where it was discovered that the injury to the cat's leg had been caused by a rat bite, the vet saying that the cat probably lose the collar in the scuffle with the rat. About the incident, Andy said: "Alex didn't have it on and that's when I looked at the app and saw it in a different road and thought I would just go and get it in the morning so I closed the app. When I woke up I went to get the collar and that's when I realised something wasn't right."

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"At first I thought some silly sausage had put it on their cat," he continued. "I went to a neighbour's garden where it said it was there was nothing in their garden. Just then, the app showed it go into a different garden and across the road. I thought I was going mad. I could see this GPS signal crossing the road but there was nothing in front of me. I saw the app said the GPS signal was weak and that's when it occurred to me that it was underground."

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"The only conclusion I have is that I'm mad or it's a rat in the drains. It's the last thing I expected. It might have eaten it, some rats are really big so it could be possible. He's had a run in with a rat and was bitten on his right paw - I didn't know this until we took him to the vet. He's lost that fight and he's lost that tracker."

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Getting the tracker had helped Andy previously when his cat went missing for two days, helping him get the cat back. But... this was the end for the GPS tracker. Andy had watched the dot move on the map for three days until the battery ran out, and that's where the story ended. Thank goodness the cat is okay though, that's all that matters at the end of the day.

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"What I could not get my head around was the speed of the thing," Andy said about the rat. "I still find it difficult to believe." So do we, Andy, so do we. At least you'll have a funny story to tell though.
For more funny animal stories, read about the time firefighters went to rescue a kitten stuck in a tree, and the kitten jumped off on its own, then climbed onto another tree.

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