When the big day finally came for Ashley Barth and her family to move to the Hawaiian island of Maui, they were heartbroken. Because their family cat, named Mee Moowe, had gone missing. Read how HuffingtonPost puts it:
Mee Moowe, Barth told WAVY-TV, must have run away the day the movers came to pack up their Virginia home. Trusting the movers, New World International, could handle the move without her there, she left them alone in the house so she could take her baby to a doctor’s appointment, according to local news site Hawaii News Now.
Hoping that their cat would return, the family extended their trip three days. They waited in the empty house, but Mee Moowe never showed up. Eventually, on Sept. 12, the Barths had to leave.
“She’s such an important part of our family. She sleeps with my daughter every night,” Barth told Hawaii News Now. “So it was devastating when we were unable to find her.” Thirty-six days later, the family’s belongings finally arrived on Maui. As the movers began unloading the boxes, they heard a faint and muffled “meow.”“The guy goes, ‘What was that sound?’ and my heart just kind of sunk for a minute,” Barth told WAVY-TV. “And I thought, ‘No, no way.’ And then we heard it again. And the guy said, ‘Was that a cat?’” Immediately, Barth realized it was Mee Moowe, and “everybody started crying,” she told local news station KHON2. Her 10-year-old daughter helped free the cat from the box.
