The Long Journey I and II, by Kitty

When Mama M moved about 10 miles across town from west to east, she could not take the carport cats with her--obviously because they would not let her even touch them. So she with sadness left them at their home by the river. She did, of course, take Masky and Grisslie, the tame house cats.

She moved into her new house on February 2, 1999. On February 1, 2000, Patches from the river showed up on the new deck and looked nose to nose through the glass door at Masky. (Remember, Masky was her little sister.) 

Mama M saw her and hurried outside with a dish of food. She set the dish on the deck, but Patches would not come over and never ate the food. The next day Patches was on the deck again, but again she would not come near Mama M or the food. By the following day, she was gone. 

A year later Babe, one of the white cats from the river, showed up on the deck, nose to nose through the glass door with Masky. Mama M was amazed. Obviously, Patches, having found the new house after a year's trek across town--with no reason or logical way to know where Mama M had gone--had returned home and told Babe where she and Masky were and how to get there. Two long journeys on cat intuition!