Found Cat of the Day: Willow’s family never expected to see her ever again, but the 6-year-old calico cat who ran away from her Colorado home five years ago and ended up in Manhattan — some 1,600 miles away — will soon be returned to them safe and sound.

“To be honest, there are tons of coyotes around here, and owls,” said owner Jamie Squires. “She was just a little thing, five and a half pounds. We put out the ‘Lost Cat’ posters and the Craigslist thing, but we actually thought she’d been eaten by coyotes.”

As it turns out, Willow survived the coyotes, and quite a bit more, to end up on E 20th Street, where she was rescued by a man, and taken to an animal shelter. There, the staff scanned the microchip implanted in Willow, and notified Animal Care & Control, which rang up Squires.

“All our pets are microchipped,” Squires told the Associated Press. “If I could microchip my kids, I would.”

When Willow finally reunites with her family, she’ll find a few new additions: Squires and her husband Chris have since welcomed a new daughter and a new English mastiff named Zoe.

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