After nearly five months lost in northeastern B.C, a beloved family cat is heading home for the holidays. Since July, Shadow the cat has been surviving in the wilderness of the Northern Rockies.

The black cat was lost when his American owner Jeremy Barton stopped for a break at Liard Hot Springs Provincial Park , a 300-kilometre drive northwest of Fort Nelson on the Alaska Highway.

Barton was travelling back from Alaska to his home state of Oklahoma – when the cat slipped out. Barton searched for hours.

"I started freaking out. I started walking around with his food bowl."

His efforts to lure Shadow out of hiding failed, and Barton had to break the news of the missing cat to his sons, Auri and Valor.

"It was pretty devastating. They both cried for a couple of days,” he said.

Now, S

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