{"id":342258,"date":"2025-10-30T03:50:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T03:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/342258\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T03:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T03:50:15","slug":"cat-owner-reunite-in-houston-after-months-and-miles-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/342258\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat, owner reunite in Houston after months and miles apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/BE53C26A825E4E2AED72D84C11758D8F.jpg\" alt=\"Cat, owner reunite in Houston after months, miles apart\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>HOUSTON<\/strong> &#8211; Eddie might not have nine lives, but he&#8217;s got a tale to tell.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">It starts in a motel room on June 1 in Erie, Pennsylvania.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;There&#8217;s a whole in the wall right above his litter box,&#8221; said Eddie&#8217;s owner, Erick Allen.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">That&#8217;s how Eddie got out.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;It was traumatic for me but more traumatic for him,&#8221; Erik said. &#8220;He&#8217;s been a house cat most of his life. It was a shock for me to find out he survived outside.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Erick had to stop looking for Eddie. He was in the process of moving to El Campo.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">A family in Erie found Eddie in late September at a gas station truck stop and took him to the Erie Humane Society,<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;We scanned him for a microchip,&#8221; said Brian Carroll of the Erie Humane Society. &#8220;That&#8217;s the big thing about microchipping your pets, because things like this happen. When they have the microchips, you can link the owners to the pets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">With the help of community donations, Brian and Eddie spent three days making the 22-hour drive from Erie to Houston.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Now Eddie is back where he belongs with Erick.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;I&#8217;m probably going to break down crying,&#8221; said Erick. &#8220;A lot of extra emotions attached besides him being my companion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> FOX 26&#8217;s Randy Wallace interviewed Erick Allen and Brian Carroll.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/coronavirus\/good-news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Good News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/pets-animals\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pets and Animals<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Houston<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; Eddie might not have nine lives, but he&#8217;s got a tale to tell.\u00a0 It starts in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":342259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[7824,11361,4345,50,8047,358,3187,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-342258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-coronavirus","9":"tag-good-news","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-pets-animals","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115461084651771954","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}