"Gideon", Tuxedo, DSH, San Mateo - Found!

Gideon is an almost two year old tuxedo DSH cat. He had been missing for a week when I was called. He is the housemate of another cat from a past search, Malcolm, who was found deceased.

The last time Gideon was seen was around 6 PM on a Friday when his person brought him in, but he immediately left again by a side window. Unfortunately, the GPS tracking was not working properly, so I will do my best to describe the track.

Basically, it appeared that Gideon had been picked up and carried away from almost in front of his house. The track was clearly a human track and not a loose cat walking. It went for several miles down along Alameda de las Pulgas, a major blvd running from town to town in the area. After several miles it went into a local high school and appeared the person was taking a rest in a corner of the baseball field. From it the track went back out of the school and eventually went back onto Alameda.

Where Alameda dead-ended at Crystal Springs Road, the track went east and then north again into Hillsborough, along another major road. Here is where his person decided to stop the track. We still had to walk all the way back.

Gideon's person walks very fast, so he walked ahead of me and made it home before I did. On my way back, I received a phone call from him that Gideon was at home. I hurried back as quickly as I could.

It appeared that Gideon had lost a couple of pounds and was very hungry and tired. Since he had been missing for one week, I believe that he was carried a long ways away (many, many miles), and then had made it back all the way to home. Gideon's person was 100% certain that Gideon was not near home when we left that morning on the search, so he was convinced that Gideon did start to make it home and may have heard him calling Gideon along the way and following his scent.