Incredible story of cat called P-Puss who made a 2,500km trip through the Australian outback after stowing away on a removal truck
- A cat named P-Puss travelled to Brisbane from a rural town in a moving truck
- She had climbed into the shipping container on the back and was locked in
- Her owner Georgia Whip put out a call on Facebook for help to bring her home
- A team of friends and strangers drove P-Puss over 1,200 kilometres home
When Georgia Whip watched as her neighbour's moving truck drive away she had no idea it was about to turn into a 2,500km round trip for her beloved pet moggy.
Mrs Whip and her husband Toby live in Longreach, in central Queensland with their two cats P-Puss and Smelly.
Last Friday Mr and Mrs Whip waved off their neighbours, who were relocating to Brisbane, and thought nothing of it when P-Puss failed to make an appearance.
It was only when P-Puss was still missing on Saturday morning that Mrs Whip called her former neighbours to check that the cat had not climbed into their truck.
Georgia Whip and her husband Toby (pictured with P-Puss) had no idea their cat P-Puss has climbed into the back of a moving truck bound for Brisbane last Friday.
P-Puss travelled from her Longreach home, in central-west Queensland, to Brisbane before she was brought home by strangers
'I did wonder if she had gotten into the truck because if there is a car with its windows down she will just jump in and have a stickybeak so it wasn't unusual,' she told Daily Mail Australia.
After making a call to her neighbour, the truck company confirmed on Sunday afternoon that P-Puss was stowed away in the back of their shipping container that was now parked in a depot in Brisbane, over 1,200 kilometres away.
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Not content to sit still P-Puss had escaped into the depot and was now giving staff the run around.
'I was really worried because I knew she would be really scared in Brisbane, especially coming from Longreach as it is very quiet out here,' Mrs Whip said.
The driver of the truck tracked P-Puss down to a shipping container before the cat escaped into a warehouse where she spent Sunday night setting off motion detectors until she was caught
P-Puss spent the night setting of motion detectors in the warehouse until a determined driver at the depot, armed with a can of tuna, tracked her for two hours until he secured the cat at midnight on Monday.
Mrs Whip now needed someone to drive her cat the nine and a half hours home to Longreach, so she put the call out on Facebook.
Loz Batley, who is the president of Central Queensland Animal Society in Rockhampton, spotted the plea for help and started to put together a rescue team.
Loz Batley put together a rescue to team to help get P-Puss home safely to Longreach
Ms Batley had one of her staff Trish go down to pick to pick up P-Puss who brought her the first hour of the trip.
Once the pair where at Rockhamptop she was passed to another woman, who had seen the post online and had taken the day off just to drive P-Puss upstate.
'Bron took P-Puss from Rockhampton to Emerald and then Sam, who is a friend of Georgia's, took her from Emerald to Longreach,' Ms Batley said.
'This was all purely volunteer there was no payments made to transport companies at all,' she said.
Ms Batley said P-Puss was in the car for more than 1,200 kilometres.
A team of three friends and strangers went out of their way to drive P-Puss over 1,200 kilometres home
P-Puss finally arrived back home on Saturday night after a full week away and has been placed under a strict lockdown order by the vet.
Mrs Whip said they family was very lucky their cat made it back alive and was thankful P-Puss was not trapped inside the container during the summer.
She praised the generosity of the compete strangers who helped get their beloved family pet home and joked that P-Puss was the right pet to go missing.
'My other's cats name is Smelly, so I'm glad she wasn't the one that went missing,' she said.
P-Puss finally arrived back home on Saturday night after a full week away and has been placed under a strict lockdown order by the vet
