<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.fark.com/goto/11906637/www.news10.com/news/pennsylvania-cat-travels-over-200-miles-to-fort-plain-ny/%3Futm_source%3Dfark%26" target="_blank" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Symbol", sans-serif; color: black; text-decoration: none;"> ♫</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: black; text-decoration: none;"> But I would walk 200 miles, And I would walk 200 more, Just to be the feline who walked a lotta miles, To return to your door on Caturday </span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Symbol", sans-serif; color: black; text-decoration: none;">♫</span></a><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Courtesy of <i>News-10</i> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) at:</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.news10.com/news/pennsylvania-cat-travels-over-200-miles-to-fort-plain-ny/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark">https://www.news10.com/news/pennsylvania-cat-travels-over-200-miles-to-fort-plain-ny/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark</a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">—————————————————</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><h1 class="article-title" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.1; font-size: 2.8125rem; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-box-ordinal-group: 3; order: 2;">Pennsylvania cat travels over 200 miles to Fort Plain, NY</h1></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Lora; background-color: white;">AMSTERDAM, N.Y. (</span><a href="http://news10.com/"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Lora; color: rgb(45, 94, 168); border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none;">NEWS10</span></a><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Lora; background-color: white;">) — A Pennsylvania cat traveled over 200 miles to Fort Plain, New York after being found by the Montgomery County SPCA. The cat had a microchip in it and the SPCA shelter staff were able to scan the chip and find the cat’s owner’s information.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Lora;">The family was contacted and came Wednesday, November 10 to pick up their pet.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 1rem; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Lora;">The cat was identified because of a microchip. For around $25 a miniature microchip in a tiny glass bead is inserted under an animal’s skin. The chip gives off a signal when scanned, which is connected to a unique identifier entered into a nationwide database.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Lora;">How the cat made the journey will always be a mystery.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 1rem; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Lora;">“Somebody could’ve picked him up along the way, or he really travelled that far and made it into our care,” said Ashley Weil, the shelter manager. “You just really wish they could talk because he would definitely have a story to share.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 1rem; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Lora;">When he got home, “he just walked around the apartment like he was never gone,” said the cat’s owner, Matt Haag, who talked to NEWS10 over Zoom from Pennsylvania.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 1rem; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Lora;">Haag was in disbelief the whole drive from Pennsylvania to New York that the SPCA had his pet, Dagger.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 1rem; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Lora;">He said Dagger may have lost a bit of weight, but other than that, is exactly how he remembers him.</span></p></div><div dir="ltr">—————————</div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Video . . .</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.news10.com/top-stories/pennsylvania-cat-travels-over-200-miles-to-fort-plain-ny/">https://www.news10.com/top-stories/pennsylvania-cat-travels-over-200-miles-to-fort-plain-ny/</a></div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"></p></div><div><div>————————————————-</div><div><br></div><div><div><b>“Caturday”</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> by Linus Petit</span></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Caturday/Caturday_by_Linus_Petit.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Caturday/Caturday_by_Linus_Petit.mp3</a></div><br><div dir="ltr"><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><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span dir="ltr">http://www.MoscowCares.net</span></span></div><div><br></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>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. 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