<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 rel="nofollow" class="outbound_link id12757030 " data-farkdomain="people.com" target="_blank" href="https://www.fark.com/goto/12757030/people.com/human-interest/woman-reunites-with-lost-cat-after-stranger-finds-him-in-another-state/%3F" style="font-size: 16px; max-height: 2000000px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(61, 61, 175); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); display: inline; height: 100%; vertical-align: middle; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">"It was enough that they brought my cat back to me, at no charge, all the way across the United States, but to offer me a Christmas gift too...I was so overwhelmed." Welcome to Caturday</a>.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Courtesy of People Magazine at:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://people.com/human-interest/woman-reunites-with-lost-cat-after-stranger-finds-him-in-another-state/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark">https://people.com/human-interest/woman-reunites-with-lost-cat-after-stranger-finds-him-in-another-state/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">————————————————-</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><h1 id="article-heading_1-0" class="comp type--lion article-heading mntl-text-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-family: "Limerick Serial", Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 3rem; line-height: 3.25rem; letter-spacing: 0.0625rem; text-underline-offset: 0.75rem; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">How One Woman Returned a Lost Cat to Her Owner — From 600 Miles Away</h1><h2 id="article-subheading_1-0" class="comp type--dog article-subheading" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1rem 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: "Limerick Serial", Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.75rem; letter-spacing: 0.0313rem; text-underline-offset: 0.25rem; font-weight: 400; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">After Jamie McCall's cat Tucker escaped from a hotel during her cross-country move, she thought she'd never see him again. But a kind stranger found Tucker and reunited them in time for Christmas</h2></div><div dir="ltr"><p id="mntl-sc-block_1-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-family: "Limerick Serial", Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75rem; letter-spacing: 0.0313rem; text-underline-offset: 0.25rem; counter-reset: section 0; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Last November, Jamie McCall was on a cross-country drive as she prepared to move from Florida to Michigan. She stopped at a hotel for the night in Cleveland, Tenn., and while she was getting herself a bite to eat, her beloved cat Tucker escaped from her room.</p><div id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-1" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); font-family: "Limerick Serial", Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"></div><p id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-2" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-family: "Limerick Serial", Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75rem; letter-spacing: 0.0313rem; text-underline-offset: 0.25rem; counter-reset: section 0; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">"My cat's an escape artist," explains McCall. "He sits hunched at the door and waits for someone to open it, then he runs out."</p><div id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-3" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); font-family: "Limerick Serial", Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"></div><p id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-4" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-family: "Limerick Serial", Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75rem; letter-spacing: 0.0313rem; text-underline-offset: 0.25rem; counter-reset: section 0; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">It somehow happened during McCall's quick errand, and she was devastated to return and find Tucker missing. "I could not find him. I looked everywhere, for hours."</p><div id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-5" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); font-family: "Limerick Serial", Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"></div><p id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-6" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-family: "Limerick Serial", Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75rem; letter-spacing: 0.0313rem; text-underline-offset: 0.25rem; counter-reset: section 0; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">When Tucker still hadn't turned up, McCall had no choice but to continue on her journey to Michigan, though it broke her heart to drive on without Tucker. A friend told her to post Tucker to the Cleveland, Tenn., lost pets page on Facebook, which she did.</p><div id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-7" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); font-family: "Limerick Serial", Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"></div><p id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-8" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-family: "Limerick Serial", Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75rem; letter-spacing: 0.0313rem; text-underline-offset: 0.25rem; counter-reset: section 0; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Two days later, Holly Lillard was at work at a CBD dispensary near McCall's hotel. She went outside to sweep and saw a cat jump out from underneath someone's car. She called the cat over, and he came, which made Lillard sure that he belonged to someone who was missing him.</p><div id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-9" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); font-family: "Limerick Serial", Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"></div><p id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-10" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-family: "Limerick Serial", Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75rem; letter-spacing: 0.0313rem; text-underline-offset: 0.25rem; counter-reset: section 0; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">She asked around and when no one claimed him, she posted a photo of Tucker to her area's "Lost and Found Pets" Facebook group. (She was a regular there, not just because she's an animal lover whose own dogs are <em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variation-settings: "ital" 0.75;">also</em> escape artists, but because her aunt and cousin are the page administrators.)</p><p id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-13" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-family: "Limerick Serial", Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75rem; letter-spacing: 0.0313rem; text-underline-offset: 0.25rem; counter-reset: section 0; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">"Before the day was even over, I'd found Jamie and her post," Lillard tells PEOPLE.</p><div id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-14" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); font-family: "Limerick Serial", Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"></div><p id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-15" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-family: "Limerick Serial", Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75rem; letter-spacing: 0.0313rem; text-underline-offset: 0.25rem; counter-reset: section 0; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">"She sent pictures and I knew immediately it was Tucker," says McCall.</p><p id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-19" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-family: "Limerick Serial", Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75rem; letter-spacing: 0.0313rem; text-underline-offset: 0.25rem; counter-reset: section 0; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">There was just one problem: by the time they connected, McCall was already in Michigan.</p><div id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-20" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); font-family: "Limerick Serial", Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"></div><p id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-21" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-family: "Limerick Serial", Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75rem; letter-spacing: 0.0313rem; text-underline-offset: 0.25rem; counter-reset: section 0; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">"I was trying to make arrangements to get him back to me, but I just couldn't afford it," says McCall. "I was not financially able to have him shipped back to me or anything like that."</p><div id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-22" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); font-family: "Limerick Serial", Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"></div><p id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-23" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-family: "Limerick Serial", Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75rem; letter-spacing: 0.0313rem; text-underline-offset: 0.25rem; counter-reset: section 0; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Lillard, however, had an unexpected solution. Her grandparents, who lived near her in Tenn., happened to have a home in Michigan, too, and they'd be coming up in December. Tucker could catch a ride with them and Lillard's grandfather would drop him off at McCall's new place. "What are the odds!?" McCall asks, laughing.</p><div id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-24" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); font-family: "Limerick Serial", Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"></div><p id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-25" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-family: "Limerick Serial", Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75rem; letter-spacing: 0.0313rem; text-underline-offset: 0.25rem; counter-reset: section 0; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">She of course accepted, and during the month-long wait for their reunion, McCall says Lillard would call her with updates, like how Tucker liked to cuddle with Lillard's 10-year-old dog.</p><div id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-26" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); font-family: "Limerick Serial", Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"></div><p id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-27" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-family: "Limerick Serial", Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75rem; letter-spacing: 0.0313rem; text-underline-offset: 0.25rem; counter-reset: section 0; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">"I would actually talk on the phone to my cat!" McCall says. "Holly and I more or less became family during that time, because she was taking such good care of him. Even though he was away from me, I felt so comfortable that he was with her." McCall sent Lillard money to help take care of Tucker, but Lillard returned that to her, too.</p><div id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-28" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); font-family: "Limerick Serial", Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"></div><p id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-29" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-family: "Limerick Serial", Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75rem; letter-spacing: 0.0313rem; text-underline-offset: 0.25rem; counter-reset: section 0; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">When Lillard's grandfather (a former record label exec who now drives tour buses for bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd) completed the 600-plus-mile journey, with Tucker in hand, McCall says her joy was indescribable.</p><p id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-29" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-family: "Limerick Serial", Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75rem; letter-spacing: 0.0313rem; text-underline-offset: 0.25rem; counter-reset: section 0; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lillard was happy to be someone's kindness hero. "I've spent my whole life trying to help people," she says. "I mean, I would want someone to do it for me! It felt so great helping her. It was really good for my soul."</span></p></div><div dir="ltr">————————</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Photo . . .</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Caturday/Caturday_021823.jpg">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Caturday/Caturday_021823.jpg</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">————————————————-</div><div dir="ltr"><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);">http://www.MoscowCares.net</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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