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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah: Earlier this month, Galena, a 6-year-old American short hair with calico and Siamese coloring, was accidentally sent on an Amazon package from Utah to California.

This week, the cat’s owner, Carrie Clark, said that after Galena disappeared on April 10, they searched the neighborhood, put up flyers, and posted notices on Facebook lost pet pages in Lehi, Utah.

“Not knowing what had happened to her was pretty excruciating,” Clark said, adding she received a text on April 17 stating that Galena’s microchip had been scanned, so she knew that her cat had been found somewhere.

Soon after, she received a call confirming that her cat was near Riverside, California, after being found in a box along with steel-toed boots that had been returned to an Amazon warehouse, Clark added.

Clark’s husband had ordered several pairs of boots, kept one and returned the rest in a large box on April 10. “We realized that that our sweet kitty must have jumped into that box without us knowing,” she said.

Amazon employee Brandy Hunter, who rescues cats, took Galena home and to the vet the next day, where the microchip was scanned.

He then spoke with Hunter who “calmed me down and told me that my kitty was OK,” despite having spent six days in a cardboard box without food or water.

“I wanted desperately to be with her,” Clark said.

The next day, she and her husband flew to California, reunited with Galena at the veterinarian’s office, and rented a car to drive home.