NAPLES, Fla. -- It takes 22 hours to reach Florida by car for a person traveling from Wisconsin. But if you're a cat, the 1,484-mile journey takes closer to two months. That's how long it took Nadia, a Russian blue, to go from her home in December to Naples last week. Cheri Stocker adopted the cat nine months ago in Wisconsin. On Christmas Eve, the cat escaped. A Naples woman found the cat. Animal-shelter workers found the cat's microchip and contacted Stocker's sister.
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