A husband and wife in California who thought their cat was gone for good got the shock of a lifetime last month when he showed up more than 900 miles away from where he was lost.
Benny and Susanne Anguiano and their two cats, arrived at Yellowstone National Park on June 4. Although the couple had always traveled with their pets, something spooked their Siamese cat, Rayne Beau, and he ran into the forest.
The couple looked for him for four days, said the Associated Press, and tried to tempt him to return with his favorite treats and toys.
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Rayne Beau was nowhere to be found.
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Eventually, on June 8, the Anguianos began their return trip to their home in Salinas, California, south of San Francisco.
This photograph provided by Susanne Anguiano shows her cat Rayne Beau looking out the window of a camper in July 2023. Rayne Beau ran away from the camper in June 2024. He was missing for two months before being found 900 miles away.(Susanne Anguiano via AP)
Susanne told the AP she was “crushed,” but remained hopeful that, against all odds, her cat would be found safe.
“We were entering the Nevada desert and all of a sudden I see a double rainbow. And I took a picture of it and I thought, that’s a sign. That’s a sign for our rainbow that he’s going to be OK,” she said.
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In August, the Anguianos received word that Rayne Beau had been found – skinny, and with paws that were roughed up – but otherwise OK.
Rayne Beau was spotted in Roseville, California, almost 900 miles from where he ran off in Yellowstone and about 200 miles away from Salinas, said the Associated Press.
Rayne Beau, above, was spotted in Roseville, California, two months after he ran away from his owners in Yellowstone National Park. He was reunited with his family after his microchip was scanned. (Alexandra Betts via AP)
A woman noticed the Siamese on the streets, and provided him with food and water before she successfully trapped him on August 3.
She then brought him to the local Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, where his microchip was scanned.
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Rayne Beau lost six pounds during his two-month journey back to California, said the Associated Press.
The Anguianos believe that Rayne Beau, somehow, was able to make the journey back to California by himself.
“His paws were really beat up.”
“I believe truly that he made that trek mostly on his own. His paws were really beat up. Lost 40% of his body weight, had really low protein levels because of inadequate nutrition. So he was not cared for,” Susanne Anguiano told the Associated Press.
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The couple reached out to the media hoping to see if anyone had perhaps spotted their cat on his journey.
For now, the Anguianos have decided to put a pause on traveling with their cats.
The Anguianos have since outfitted their cats (Rayne Beau is in front) with AirTags and GPS trackers. (Susanne Anguiano via AP)
“It was a very ugly feeling after we lost him,” Benny Anguiano told the AP.
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“We’ll have to practice camping at home and camp in the driveway to get him used to it.”
And they have taken extra steps to ensure their cats are safe and sound.
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While the cats were already microchipped, they have since been fitted with AirTags – and a GPS global tracker for Rayne Beau, said the couple.
The Associated Press contributed reporting.
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Christine Rousselle is a lifestyle reporter with Fox News Digital.
An adolescent owl that was found stuck in a concrete mixer in southwestern Utah is finally on the mend, flying free and maybe a bit wiser from the ordeal.
The great horned owl somehow made his way into the truck-mounted mixer in late October and was discovered by workers pouring concrete at a resort construction site.
Lucky for him, a series of people gave a hoot about his predicament. Workers hosed the bird down before it was wrapped in a towel.
A great horned owl wakes from anesthesia in an aviary at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah, May 1, 2026. Best Friends Animal Society via AP
It took days for employees at the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab to pick the concrete from the bird’s face, chest and right wing, using forceps to carefully crack the dried debris and cleaning the feathers with toothbrushes and dish soap.
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The owl started its long recovery at an aviary run by the organization, and employees anxiously waited for it to grow new feathers. But the bird didn’t molt as predicted.
In early May, he underwent a procedure called imping, which uses adhesive to graft donor feathers onto existing shafts.
“The first few feathers were extremely nerve-wracking, but as we got into the groove, the imping became more comfortable, and everything went smoothly,” said Bart Richwalski, a supervisor at the sanctuary.
Great horned owls typically have tufting on the edges of some of their feathers that allows them to fly quietly as they hunt.
But the concrete frayed the rescued owl’s feathers and caused it to make a whooshing sound while flying.
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Veterinary staff perform surgery on the great horned owl at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary’s clinic. Best Friends Animal Society via AP
To prepare for the imping procedure, sanctuary staff examined the owl’s feather patterns every few weeks and snipped damaged shafts in advance.
The owl was anesthetized and the donor feathers from a similarly sized owl that had died were laid out nearby to replicate each wing.
The staff then cut the feathers to the necessary length, lined them up and adhered them to the bird.
By the end of the 90-minute procedure, the owl had 10 new primary feathers and a secondary feather on his right wing. But then came the real test: could he fly silently?
The great horned owl flies to freedom after surgery at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. Best Friends Animal Society via AP
The bird was placed in a large aviary to recover from the anesthesia and quickly took flight after awakening.
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Richwalski used a decibel meter to measure the sound of the owl’s wingbeat and determined its flight was quiet enough for it to safely be released.
The owl hovered for a moment while the aviary roof was retracted, gained speed and then flew out into the wild.
“It feels so, so good. I think my heart finally started beating again. The nervousness was starting to overtake the excitement, but once I saw him fly out that opening in the roof, it just was, it was a sight to see. It was so fun,” said Richwalski, who has cared for the owl since picking him up at the construction site.
Karla Bloem, executive director of the Minnesota-based International Owl Center, said imping has been practiced by falconers “for eons” and is a very effective treatment.
“I’ve never heard of it not lasting, because you use some pretty good stuff when you’re doing imping,” said Bloem, who has studied great horned owls for nearly three decades.
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She added that it would be OK if a couple of the grafted feathers fell out. The bulk of them just need to stay put until the owl can grow new ones in the coming summer months.
“And now it just needs to figure out, ‘whoa, I’m back in the big world again, hunting,’” she said. “Find a territory … you know, find one of the opposite sex and settle down and have kids.”
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A Colorado man is dead after a crash near Cheyenne, on South Greeley Highway/U.S. Highway 85 by milepost 2.5.
A preliminary report by the Wyoming Highway Patrol says that 48-year-old Shaun Hafley was driving a Ford truck north on U.S. 85 while a Kia Soul was traveling south.
The two vehicles collided in a glancing head-on manner. After the collision, the Kia left the road to the right, entering the right-side borrow ditch and coming to an uncontrolled rest facing northwest. The Ford came to an uncontrolled rest in the southbound lane, facing northwest.
There were no possible contributing factors listed in the report, though it was noted that while weather conditions were clear, road conditions featured ice/frost and slush.
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Hafley was not using a seat belt, the report states.
The driver of the other vehicle was injured in the crash. The status of their injuries was not reported.
This story contains preliminary information as provided by the Wyoming Highway Patrol via the Wyoming Department of Transportation Fatal Crash Summary map. The agency advises that information may be subject to change.
