Spice has a zest for life.
How else could the 3-year-old calico cat survive for 19 days without food or water in a Matson shipping container traveling from Hawaii to California?
Before Tuesday, the last time Pamela Escamilla saw her family cat, Spice, was on June 14 in Waikoloa on the Big Island after her family had moved all its belongings into two Matson containers.
She and a neighbor locked the 20-foot container doors shut and in the rush of moving did not notice until later that Spice was missing.
At first, Escamilla thought Spice had wandered off. She is an independent cat who spends a lot of time outdoors, Escamilla said.
The family was planning to leave Spice with friends in Hawaii while moving to San Bernardino. So Escamilla asked a neighbor to watch out for Spice, thinking she would make her way back to the house.
But slowly a thought began gnawing at her.
"I didn't want to believe it," Escamilla said. "I didn't want to believe that as a possibility."
The idea that she had locked the cat, adopted as a kitten from the Humane Society, in a shipping container "devastated me."
"We called Matson. They said there was nothing they could do. The ship was already at sea," Escamilla said. FULL STORY. By Craig Gima Honolulu Star-Bulletin
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