Waylon, Lost 1-Year-Old Florida Cat, Found 2,000 Miles Away In Colorado (VIDEO)

A 1-year-old orange-and-white tabby cat from Florida that went missing in August has been found in Colorado -- more than 2,000 miles away from his home, 9News reports.

Waylon was adopted from a Naples, Fla. shelter by Daniel Johns back in August, but Waylon had other plans -- he escaped from Johns' home through a dryer vent less than 30 minutes after being brought to his new home, according to 7News.

Then this last Wednesday, Waylon was found wandering around a neighborhood in Littleton. The details as to how he arrived and how long he has been here in Colorado are a mystery, The Denver Post reports. The person that found Waylon brought him to Foothills Animal Shelter in Golden where they scanned a microchip embedded under the cat's fur linking Waylon to Johns.

"It's a Christmas miracle," Johns told Naples News. "He's a really cool, sweet cat. He walks on a leash and knows his own name." Johns says he never tried to get a new cat after Waylon disappeared, he even kept all of the cat's toys, food and bedding on the chance that the cat might come back.

Johns plans to come to Colorado and pick up Waylon next week.

Comments

[brooklynmark]

02:27 PM on 12/31/2011

They should have issue an amber alert http://www.PetAmberAlert.com

[wordhorder]

03:14 AM on 12/25/2011

Um, he had the cat for thirty minutes before it ran away...how well does he know the cat? The only piece of news here is the guy is an idiot for buying the airfare to get the cat.

[lensman3]

12:27 AM on 12/25/2011

Only 2 of it's 9 lives are left!

[Cat-Lover]

10:50 PM on 12/24/2011

It's a miracle.
Score it as ONE. Now he needs just two more and he could be --
Saint Waylon.

[ortrudes]

03:22 PM on 12/24/2011

I, too wonder how the guy knew so much about his cat if he was only there 30 minutes. How did he have the chance to walk him on a leash if he only just brought him home. He escaped through the dryer vent? Something wrong here.

[puffinair]

01:14 PM on 12/24/2011

Look at that innocent face, but we all know Waylon is a troublemaker! You don’t fool us Mister!

[Marmann]

08:03 AM on 12/24/2011

I was lucky enough to get my dog from the shelter. At that time, she was 9 weeks old, and a microchip was used to identify her. That was when I lived in Pennsylvania.

I now live in Colorado, and that same microchip remains embedded in her, so if she got lost and they accessed the microchip, it would look like a dog wandered 2,500 miles from her home, when, in fact, she's here with me in Colorado.

I didn't bother to ask anyone to remove the chip since she's indoors most of the time, and any time I am outside with her, she's on a leash. If she DID get lost, she already got a pretty good sniff of her Christmas stocking, so I think she'd be coming back soon.

[wordhorder]

03:16 AM on 12/25/2011

You know that the chip just links to a data base that you can update by calling a company, right?

[1differentdrummer]

03:58 AM on 12/24/2011

A cat would know better than to leave warm Naples for cold CO in the winter. Cat must've been abducted.

[SteveDenver]

02:16 AM on 12/24/2011

Happens all the time: ask movers how often they open the back of a truck and a cat jumps out.
Cute guy, real escape artist.

[Marmann]

08:06 AM on 12/24/2011

OMG, you couldn't be more right! I remember coming home one night, and I parked behind my neighbor's pickup truck, and suddenly this little head pops out of the bed of his truck, as if to say, "Hi there." Fortunately, he jumped out of the truck and came into the house, but if I hadn't come home, she very well may just rode home with the owner of the pickup!!

[nana41]

07:26 PM on 12/23/2011

Probably went North with a snowbird..

[Rinaldi Moscatiello]

04:42 PM on 12/23/2011

Stowaway cat on a truck, most likely.

[angryliberal]

04:25 PM on 12/23/2011

Maybe the cat heard about Colorado's lax pot laws.

[Klytemnestra]

04:21 PM on 12/23/2011

Kitty just wanted a white Christmas.

[Marmann]

08:07 AM on 12/24/2011

If so, he came to the right place. LOL!

[kmmhike]

04:11 PM on 12/23/2011

Hopefully Waylon's owners will try harder to keep him from escaping again. In the video I almost heard little Waylon humming his theme song:

Lord I was born a ramblin' man; tryin to make a livin' and doin' the best I can;
And when it comes to leavin', I hope you understand; I was born a ramblin' man.

[nokidnemore]

11:02 AM on 12/24/2011

HAHAHAA!! GOOD ONE. :)
I COULD HEAR, "BORN TO BE W-I-I-I-I-L-D, BORN TO BE W-I-I-I-I-L-D"

[suennui]

03:55 PM on 12/23/2011

Sounds like Waylon is a wandering gypsy!