Cat vanishes on Yellowstone trip — then determined pet treks over 800 miles back home

A California couple thought they might never see their beloved cat again after he ran off into the forest during a camping trip in Yellowstone National Park.

But then he showed up back in California, and it appears he trekked more than 800 miles on his own, KSBW reported.

Susanne and Benny Anguiano had taken their cats camping with them several times before, the station reported.

But this time, their cat Rayne Beau (pronounced like rainbow) was startled by something and ran off into the forest, NBC News reported.

A photo Susanne Anguiano shared on Facebook shows their campground next to the forest.

“I never told the story on Facebook because it was too traumatic,” she wrote. “But now we’re ready to tell the story of how we lost our cat, Rayne Beau, in Yellowstone National Park on June 4 and 60 days later was found in Roseville California.”

Roseville is about an 835-mile drive southwest from the national park and is still about a 200-mile drive north of their home in Salinas.

After Rayne Beau ran off, the couple spent “every day of their trip” searching for him, KSBW reported.

“This is what we had to search through for 5 days,” Anguiano said in the Sept. 17 post on Facebook along with a photo of the dense woods.

During the search, the couple “still got to see some sights,” Anguiano said on a photo of the two of them in front of the park’s iconic blue, orange and yellow Grand Prismatic Spring.

But then they had to make the heartbreaking decision to return home to California — without their beloved cat.

“That was the hardest day because I felt like I was abandoning him,” Susanne Anguiano told the station.

Little did they know, their tenacious pet might have already been on his way back home to them.

A woman in Roseville had found Rayne Beau and took him to the local Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, where the shelter scanned his microchip and pinged the Anguianos of his location, KSBW reported.

Susanne Anguiano shared the cat’s “mug shot” from the shelter in her Facebook post.

He was in pretty bad shape, before-and-after photos show.

“Rayne lost 40% of his body weight,” Benny Anguiano commented under the photos. “Left 13 + lbs and was 8lbs when we took him to vet two days after getting Rayne back. His blood sugar and protein levels were near starvation mode.”

“Nothing short of a real life miracle,” someone said under the photo.

Even the woman who rescued him could tell he didn’t have much left in him, Susanne Anguiano told KSBW.

“He was really depleted,” she told the station. “He probably didn’t have a lot of energy to even go further.”

But before too long, he was “reunited with his twin sister” and back to curling up with her for a cat nap, Anguiano said alongside a photo.

“Unbelievable story and miracle,” someone commented under the photo.

“Finally able to rest well,” Susanne Anguiano said of a photo of the cat sleeping soundly on a bed.