Stowaway cat gets from Utah to California in Amazon returns package

A photo provided by Carrie Clark shows Galena the cat, who travelled to California from Utah in an Amazon box. Clark says she thinks that Galena got into the box while her husband was packing up some returns, by jumping inside when he left to fetch some tape to seal it up. — Carrie Clark via The New York Times

When Carrie Clark got a phone call on April 17 from a veterinarian in California informing her that her cat, which had vanished from her Utah home a week earlier, had been found some 500 miles away, her first reaction was disbelief.

“I could not believe that it was true,” Clark said in an interview Sunday night. “I told her: I think this is a prank.”