If I were a veterinary researcher and I heard about a case like this, I’d want to check it out and publish the details in a science journal or something.
Someone who knows how to search for things should look up whether any scientists wrote about Sugar.
In 1987, my wife and I got a cat from an animal shelter in a nearby city. One of the most unique cats I’ve ever owned. The cat literally became a “member of the family” almost immediately.
A year later, we had our first child. Obviously, the attention paid to the cat went down considerably. The cat didn’t like this and expressed a great disdain for our daughter, so much so that we feared that she might be in danger.
We decided to take the cat to my parents house and let it live there. My parents live about 6 miles outside of town to the South. We lived just outside of town to the North. Driving in a car, the distance between the two houses was 11 miles. I just measured the distance on Google Earth and, as the crow flies, it is about 8 miles.
We had just gotten back home from dropping the cat off with my parents, and my dad called to let me know that the cat had escaped from their house and was nowhere to be found. The next morning when I left for work, there he was on the front porch.
So we took the cat back to my parents house that evening. This time he stayed for a while, but eventually disappeared and turned up again at our house.
Her parents lived about 2 hours away, so we brought the cat there. This time he stayed put.
I realize that the distance this cat traveled was from the south side of a small town to the north side of the same town, certainly not the equivalent of California to Oklahoma, but we found it remarkable all the same.
Can a cat really smell its litterbox from three miles away?
That’s without a breeze even?