With MUCH fanfare, happy tears, hugs, and rejoicing, I am ecstatic to report that my garden buddy George the cat is home safe.

That little fuzzy-faced muppet walked 12 MILES back to our old home after slipping out during the move across town. This is a cat who regularly locks himself in the bedroom when he accidentally nudges the door shut. This is a cat who had never been outside of St. Johns until the move.

I consented to an interview with The Oregonian; the next day the AP picked up the story, nicknamed him “George the Comeback Cat”, and the tale was retold online in the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, ABC News, the New York Daily News, Fox News, Time, the Houston Chronicle, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Miami Herald… well, you get the idea. He’s a celebrity!

George has not expressed much desire to go outside since his return. He likes to sit on his cat tree, though, and watch the world go by.