TAMPA, Fla. (WWJ) -- A Dearborn family has solved the mystery of their missing cat.
It's a tall tale that ended up in Florida.
The family's cat, Daisy Duck Bandit, disappeared just before Halloween. They checked local shelters and posted on social media, but had no leads in the area.
There's no telling how, but last month the family got the call that Daisy wound up all the way down in Tampa, Florida. The family says they're unsure whether the cat "hitched a ride in a moving van or a snowbird took him down to Florida."
Daisy followed a woman home in Tampa and she took him to a vet's office, where they used a microchip to find his owners and called the family.
Daisy's owners started a GoFundMe page to raise funds in order to buy a plane ticket home for the cat. The owner's post on the page says they reached out to try and find friends and relatives who may have been in that area and able to bring Daisy home, but they were unsuccessful.
They say their only option is to fly Daisy home in cargo, so they needed to raise funds for the ticket, a special crate, and are contracting Bamboo Pet Sitting, out of Tampa, to pick him up and bring him to the airport. The fundraiser hit its goal.
Stephanie Nay, with Bamboo Pet Sitting in Tampa, says she's in charge of putting Daisy back on a plane this week to Michigan.
Nay says maybe it's the weather that lead Daisy to a warmer climate.
"I would've gotten sick of that too," Nay said of the cold Michigan winter. "I lived in Minnesota for a couple of years and I was too happy to move back to Florida."
As for just how Daisy got to Florida, Nay says we will probably never know.
