Cheri Stocker of Sheboygan, Wisc., holds her cat Nadia Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016 in Sheboygan, Wisc. The 2-year-old Russian blue escaped from Cheri Stocker's Sheboygan home on Christmas Eve, where it disappeared until showing up this week 1,484 miles away in Naples, Fla. (Phil Bock/The Sheboygan Press via AP)
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NAPLES, Fla. (AP) - It takes about 22 hours to reach Florida by car for a person traveling from Wisconsin.
But if you're a cat, the 1,484-mile journey likely takes closer to two months. At least that's how long it took Nadia, the Russian blue, to trek from her home on a snowy December day to sunny Naples this week where animal officials helped find her owners.
The Naples Daily News (http://bit.ly/1TB3rJy) reports Cheri Stocker adopted the cat nine months ago in Wisconsin. On Christmas Eve, the cat escaped.
A Naples woman found the kitty in North Naples.
Workers at an animal shelter found the cat's microchip and, through a pet relocation service, got hold of Stocker's sister, who had been listed as an emergency contact.
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Information from: Naples (Fla.) Daily News, http://www.naplesnews.com
Nadia the cat at its home Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016 in Sheboygan, Wisc. The 2-year-old Russian blue escaped from Cheri Stocker's Sheboygan home on Christmas Eve, where it disappeared until showing up this week 1,484 miles away in Naples, Fla. (Phil Bock/The Sheboygan Press via AP)
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Nadia the cat at its home Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016 in Sheboygan, Wisc. The 2-year-old Russian blue escaped from Cheri Stocker's Sheboygan home on Christmas Eve, where it disappeared until showing up this week 1,484 miles away in Naples, Fla. (Phil Bock/The Sheboygan Press via AP)
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