‘The meows were nonstop, loud and baby-like, and we called and called and finally… an orange cat appeared before me’: Lost soul cat comes home by itself after escaping its harness and fleeing to the woods, remembering exactly where his new home was

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Dec 9, 2025 4:00 PM EST

Cats are truly a mysterious bunch, and we would not be surprised if many of this world's mysteries could be solved if a cat thought translator would be invented. If we could finally know what is going on in their tiny, albeit brilliant, minds, who knows what mysteries we could solve? But at the very least, the mystery of why the cat child featured in today's story decided to wriggle out of its harness and run away would be solved. For what is a loving feline pawrent meant to think when their cat child does their very best to squirm out of the only thing keeping them together while outdoors?

Lucky for the pawrent in this story, the cat came back, but if it had not, that could have been a pain and weight that they would have lived with for the rest of their life. So the moral of the story is we need the technologists that be to invent a cat thought translator.

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    I have an orange senior cat, Copper. I've had him for about six years and in April, I returned from college and
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    moved in with my grandparents. I wanted him there with me, because he is like my soul cat. He has saved my life
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    before. He has helped me so much emotionally, I don't think I'd be here without him. About four days after the
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    move, me and my grandma tried him outside on a leash and harness because I was scared of letting him outside and him running
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    away. He slipped from his harness. I felt my world literally shatter around me as my best friend disappeared into the
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  • Oh jheez, sometimes it is so painfully true that when you hold on too hard to something, it just makes it easier for that thing to slip off and run away. Which is certainly the tact that it seems this catto has chosen. We cannot imagine the heartache of losing your cat like this.

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    woods. I have never cried like I did that day before in my life. It was probably guttural. And as the days went by, it was
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    CASIO Lic PUREE Variety
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    creeping into my mind that he was gone. Something had got him and he was gone. It felt surreal and numb to
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    live life without my cat, to know I might never see my handsome angel ever again. Well, tonight, I heard cat
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    cries from my window and I thought for sure it was a distressed kitten. I immediately got my granny and
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    we quickly went to investigate. The meows were nonstop, loud and baby-like, and we called and called
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  • No, freaking, way. Cats, man, they are just impossible sometimes. Their wills and wants are just unpredictable. Often leaving us to try and figure out intention and meaning in situations that have relatively grave consequences. It is a good thing that they are so cute; otherwise, we would not be putting up with this kind of madness.

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    and finally... an orange cat appeared before me. Everything really did seem to just slow down as I picked up
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    the cat and heard it begin purring immediately. You all... my cat came back to me. He could've went to his
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    old house, my mom's house, right down the road. He grew up there. He was only here with me and my
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    grandparents for like four days. But he chose to stop here. My missing cat found me today
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    misc... My soul cat also went missing nearly a week ago :( I am so so SO worried, we live
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    in the mountains and have lots of wild animals out there. I've gone into the woods to look
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    for him every day, I really hope me seeing this is some sort of positive sign :c
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    xech... time to go cry and hug my soul-cat
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