Bought a house from people who moved 20 miles away. Their cat returned to the house 3 times, through farms, sugar cane fields etc. The 3rd time we (and his owners) gave up and let him stay!

You're supposed to take special care when moving and you have cats. If they get out during the move, they'll try to go to their old home. I have a friend who learned this from bitter experience, losing her beloved orange tabby who was hit by a car trying to return to her old house.

I don't know what mechanism causes this, but birds migrate thousands of miles every year using the Earth's magnetic field, so why not also a territorial animal like a cat?

Difference here is that the cat wasn't going to its old home. The owners left it at the old home. It supposedly found its way to the new home it had never been to before. It magically sensed where its owners were.

@Alex:
You're right! Maybe...Tom had GPS on his iPhone? Okay, you're just right. It is a really unlikely story.

Cats have much better senses then we do, so of course this story seems false.. But I can assure you that it is entirely possible (and I have no doubt this is true) Because when these animals get attached to their owners and they (The owners) move, The cat will work tirelessly to find the owners.. Its unbelievable but somewhere in their brains they have a navigational sense that is very strong, and stories like this are not to uncommon, And after properly researched it is found this is true.

What kind of person thinks someone wouldn't remember what their own cat looked like after two years? Someone who's never had a pet, maybe? An ailurophobe? I'd still be able to pick my mom's old cat out of a lineup, and she's been dead for half my life now, which is a lot longer than two years.

@ Corin, "Citation Needed" on your "after properly researched" bit there. Like cats plenty, tho

Interrobang, in this cat line up, would the clue be that your Mother's cat was the one that was dead?

You guys don't know if this story is true or not. You shouldn't put up stories that you don't know for certain are or aren't true. You'd think the family would know their cat better than a bunch of people randomly reading the story that have never known the cat. Animals are all exactly the same. They have different markings and different personalities. These stories may seem impossible, but we still don't know for sure how animals sense and navigate. Heck, it took centuries before people finally came to the realization that animals are actually conscious beings.... although I doubt the proof was in mainstream media.

"The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness in Non-Human Animals was publicly proclaimed in Cambridge, UK, on July 7, 2012, at the conclusion of the Conference, at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, by Philip Low, David Edelman and Christof Koch. It was written by Philip Low and edited by Jaak Panksepp, Diana Reiss, David Edelman, Bruno Van Swinderen, Philip Low, and Christof Koch. The Declaration was signed by the conference participants that very evening, in the presence of Stephen Hawking, in the Balfour Room at the Hotel du Vin in Cambridge, UK. The signing ceremony was memorialized by CBS 60 Minutes"

http://fcmconference.org/

They found consciousness in, among other creatures, zebra finches which have TINY brains!

So we are still learning about animals and how they think/ sense/ interact with the world. I say if the family says it's their cat, they would know far better than we would and since even science is not clear on the nature of animals, some animals may very well be able to travel vast difference to find their loved ones.

he used google map :3

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