A stowaway cat named Kevin, missing since 2013, was found hiding in a trailer during a routine inspection at the Arizona border. (Photo: Photo courtesy of John Welsh) 
 
 A stowaway cat traveling in a U-Haul trailer somehow made its way from South Carolina to California – and now Riverside County Animal Services is trying to get the orange tabby back to his owner. Kevin the cat was very stealth in his travels, making it all the way to the Arizona-California border without detection, animal services spokesman John Welsh said in a press release. During the inspection, the woman opened the trailer and was surprised to find the cat, which meowed several times. Employees at the Blythe Animal Shelter discovered the cat did have a microchip embedded under its skin – and the presumed owner of the cat was tracked to a South Carolina location." “We have handled some pets with crazy pet stories, and this is one more for the list,” said Riverside County Animal Services Director Robert Miller. Animal control officials tracked down the owner, Cheryl Walls, who said the cat disappeared in fall 2013 from Anderson, S.C. 
 
 Cat missing since 2013 finally found Riverside County Animal Services A stowaway cat named Kevin, missing since 2013, was found hiding in a trailer during a routine inspection at the Arizona border. (Riverside County Animal Services) 
 
 Kevin was an indoor cat “but acted unhappy,” Walls said, according to Welsh. So she allowed Kevin, who bears the name of her late fiancé, to go outside. Walls told animal control officials she was looking forward to Kevin’s return. The flight arrangements are still in the works, but a tentative plan has been scheduled for Wednesday morning.
– Another entry in the cat-came-back chronicles, though this orange tabby had some help in doing so. "Kevin" disappeared two years ago in South Carolina and turned up this month about 2,000 miles away in California. He apparently hitched a ride in a U-Haul trailer being towed across the country by a woman, though she had no idea he was inside it, reports the Los Angeles Times. Kevin was discovered during a routine inspection of the trailer at the Arizona-California border, and animal-control officials then tracked down his original owner via the cat's microchip. “We have handled some pets with crazy pet stories, and this is one more for the list,” says an official with Riverside County Animal Services in California. Where Kevin was in the two years before he got inside the U-Haul trailer remains unclear. But he was being flown home to Cheryl Walls in Anderson, SC, today, thanks in part to donations from shelter employees in California, reports the Desert Sun. "He has seen more of the country than me," she says.