Cat flees 670 miles away from the owner

 An Illinois trucker turned into reunited along with his cat after the feline fled from his car at some stage in a pit forestall at a truck stop in Nevada.

Chad McIntyre, of Decatur, said his cat, Tyler, often accompanies him on his lengthy-haul drives.

"it's nice that he is lying there in the passenger seat, and yeah, he doesn't talk again, but it is great to have anyone, something to speak to," McIntyre told KSTU-tv.

McIntyre said he changed into changing Tyler's muddle box when the tom cat wandered off at a Flying J Truck stop in Fernley.

"I had to deliver to Walmart so I had to go away, and i was gone for approximately 2 half of hours and got here right back and commenced to look for him again," McIntyre stated. "day after today, I needed to go to California. Then, I came returned the subsequent night after that and tried to search for him once more, nevertheless could not locate him."

Brandi McIntyre, Chad's wife, sounded the alarm about Tyler's missing popularity at the trucker social media network and missing pet companies on facebook.

Tyler grew to become up 5 days later at a Flying J Truck prevent in Rock Springs, Wyo., about 670 miles away from Fernley. The cat turned into taken to a nearby animal shelter and scanned for a microchip, which gave rescuers McIntyre's touch data.

Rock Springs Animal control supervisor Lydia Gomez labored with independent delivery coordinator Joan Nickum to get Tyler a ride home to Illinois.

Nickum coordinated a sequence of drivers to take Tyler from refuge to shelter alongside the route till he changed into home in Decatur.

"there's no way we ought to do it with out the many, many volunteers who use their time and their own cash and vehicles to make those transports," Nickum advised Cowboy nation every day. "that is all executed by means of volunteers throughout the usa inclined to present of themselves to make these rescues appear."

The McIntyers stated Tyler may not be getting misplaced at anymore truck stops whenever quickly.

"he's grounded from taking place the truck for a while," Brandi McIntyre said. "My husband and i just have determined that maybe it is higher if he stays domestic for as a minimum some time, after which maybe down the road he can cross once more."