A volunteer with the Ladybug Farm Sanctuary in Odessa discovered a nightly visitor who was often hungry.
Ronda Lang set up a trap on the porch, which is used to trap, neuter, and release feral cats.
“I had a trap on the porch and was trying to get a specific cat and in the meantime, this girl kept showing up and going to the trap and eating off and on for six hours, every single night from 9pm to 3am and she had a collar on,” said Ronda Lang, a volunteer with Ladybug Farm Sanctuary.
She noticed the female cat was wearing a collar. Once she trapped the cat, she scanned her for a microchip.
The chip connected her with Tripe R Pets, an all-volunteer-staff, non-profit organization based in south and southwest Chicago, Illinois.
“I was shocked. I’m like how did she get down here in Tampa and they said let me find out, that’s when they started making phone calls and found out the path that she was on,” said Lang.
Lang said she learned the cat was named “Marble.” She originally belonged to a woman who lived on a farm in Illinois.