AWWW, Willow the Colorado cat who went missing five years ago, only to turn up in New York City last week, was reunited with her family today. Her owners, the Squires family, said the media attention on their cute calico was "surreal," but they welcomed it if it meant people would be encouraged to microchip their pets. Matt Lauer couldn't resist a pun, noting, "It's a story that's making big tabby-loid headlines here in New York." more ›

The nearly 2,000-mile journey that a little calico cat made from Colorado to the Big Apple has captured everyone's imagination—even Mayor Bloomberg's! During a press conference yesterday, Bloomberg was asked about Willow, the cat found on a Manhattan street who turned out to be a cat who went missing five years ago from her Colorado family's home. Bloomberg waxed philosophic, “I think what it does show is that everybody, in the end, wants to come and live in New York. Now, cats reputedly have nine lives, and [Willow] clearly wanted to spend at least one of them here in New York City. I just don’t know what [she] was waiting for.” more ›

The feline good story of the week: Willow, a cat that went missing from a Boulder, Colorado family, was found on the mean streets of New York—five years after her disappearance! One of her humans, Jamie Squires, told the Post, "To be honest, there are tons of coyotes around here, and owls. She was just a little thing, five and a half pounds. We put out the 'Lost Cat' posters and the Craigslist thing, but we actually thought she'd been eaten by coyotes." But, luckily, they microchipped her! more ›