I've been following this lost cat drama and was reminded of what happened with my cat Straw at college in Oberlin (He was named Straw because I wasn't getting along with my roommate and when I brought him home he said This is the last straw! and moved out. That's not the story)
https://twitter.com/sirosenbaum/status/1408811388584169480
Straw was an indoor/outdoor cat with no collar because I was young and foolish and believed that He Had His Own Fate. He used to follow me four blocks to campus every morning and then turn around and go home on his own. He was a good cat.
Sometimes he'd stay out for a day or two but he'd always come back so I never worried. Then one time he didn't come back. Days, then weeks, then a month. I resigned myself to the fact that he was gone for good. Then, after 5 or 6 weeks, he showed up again like nothing was wrong!
He seemed healthy and happy and never wandered off again (though I think I did put a collar on him at that point). Anyway, a few months later we had a party at the house and some guy I didn't know saw Straw and said, "Holy shit, it's Otis!"
Otis is what he had named the cat who showed up at his house one day and then lived there for 5 or 6 weeks before disappearing! He thought he'd never see Otis again.
Straw made it intact to New York City where he lived a very long if not entirely happy life as an indoor cat (he did manage to twice catch pigeons through the window and once got out onto the windowsill but those are other stories) 
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