“We arranged the foam and then we walked off [to] find a label ... so I’m thinking he must have gotten in there then,” she said. “I’m sure he was completely panicked.” Webster and her 9-year-old daughter, Natalie Bennett, searched frantically for Cody for the next couple of days.
Then, on Wednesday, Brett St. Aubin, clinic director of Chiro One Wellness Centers of Woodstock, received the package expecting to find home traction units, which help patients with neck problems. “We opened it up and we found cat hair on the merchandise,” the chiropractor said. “And [then] I saw the cat. I quickly closed the box back up.”
Cody wasn’t wearing his collar, which had come off in his travels, so it took a few minutes for St. Aubin and his staff to figure things out. Eventually, though, they pulled him out and started petting him. “He was in shock, but well-behaved,” St. Aubin said, adding that he called Webster as soon as he found the collar.
“He said ‘Are you the owner of Cody the cat?’ I said, 'Yes I am,'” Webster said. “I started screaming. He said, ‘We’re in Illinois.’ I’m like, ‘What?’” After getting everyone up to speed, the two started figuring out how to get Cody back to Texas. St. Aubin also took the cat to the nearby Animal Hospital of Woodstock, where he was given a relatively clean bill of health.
“He was just a little bit in shock,” said Brenda Brown, certified veterinary technician at the hospital. “We actually kept him here overnight, and he was eating and drinking normally. He definitely appeared to be in good spirits.” Yesterday, a courier picked up Cody from Woodstock, took him to O'Hare International Airport, and placed him on a flight home.
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