<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><div>Courtesy of Hawaii News Now at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/27538794/cat-survives-month-in-moving-box-trip-to-hi">http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/27538794/cat-survives-month-in-moving-box-trip-to-hi</a></div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><h3 class="" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; clear: both; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif;">Cat survives month in moving box, trip to Hawaii</h3><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">SUFFOLK, VA (WAVY/CNN) - A family said its cat took an accidental trip from Virginia to Hawaii in a moving box and lived to meow again.</span></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The animal was supposed to stay with relatives, but apparently Memeow had a different plan. It was moving day for the Barth family when their beloved pet went missing.</span></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I was really worried and starting to think the worst," Ashley Barth said Tuesday. "Maybe she ran away; maybe the movers scared her."</span></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Barths stayed in their empty Suffolk home a few extra days hoping she'd turn up. Eventually, they couldn't wait any longer.</span></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"My girls were devastated, trying to tell me that I couldn't leave without Memeow," Barth said.</span></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The land and sea journey for the Barth family's belongings took more than a month.</span></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When move-in day finally came, something surprising came with it - a quick, faint meow from one of the boxes.</span></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"The guy goes 'what was that sound?'" Barth said. "My heart just kind of sunk for a minute, and I thought, 'No. No way.' And then we heard it again, and the guy said, 'Was that a cat?'"</span></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It was Memeow clinging to possibly her last life.</span></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I was in shock," Barth said. "I couldn't believe it. I think I was grateful that she was alive, but I was furious this happened to her."</span></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Barth said Memeow could barely walk and had lost almost half her weight, but somehow she survived more than a month without food or water.</span></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"She came right up to my daughters and right to me and wouldn't let us leave her side," she said.</span></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Memeow is at a veterinarian's office for a three-month quarantine because she didn't have proper vaccinations, and that's costing the family $4,000. But call it curiosity or a moving company's mistake - the Barth family calls it a miracle.</span></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I'm just as shocked as they are," Barth said. "I have no idea how she did it."</span></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Veterinarians said it's nearly impossible a cat could survive such a long time without food or water. Factors like her weight before she left and the level of humidity inside the box could have kept her alive.</span></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p><p style="text-align: start; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="text-align: center; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A family's cat survived being trapped in a moving box and the trek from Virginia to Hawaii.</span></p><p style="text-align: start; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><img src="cid:B9310D9B-897E-41F3-B91B-DAA36733F129" alt="image1.jpeg" id="B9310D9B-897E-41F3-B91B-DAA36733F129"><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/Caturday/Caturday_120614.jpg">http://www.moscowcares.com/Caturday/Caturday_120614.jpg</a></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Video</span></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/clip/10912835/cat-survives-month-in-shipping-box">http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/clip/10912835/cat-survives-month-in-shipping-box</a></p></div><div>---------------------------------------<br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>