Cat tracked travelling at 184 mph over rooftops on Christmas morning

A cat fitted with a GPS device was tracked travelling nearly 12 miles at a top speed of  just over 184 mph (296.2 kph) at midnight on December 24. Suki, who lives in Manadon, Plymouth with Melony Gallagher, travelled halfway across the city in a matter of minutes and back again – twice – according to the G-paws data logger.



The device, which is sold to help owners keep track of their pets, records movements every 10 seconds. Melony said the unit had been used on Suki every day for weeks with no issues. he said: “I live alone and was sound asleep in bed at the time and my cat Suki was out wearing the G-paws.

“She appears to have travelled several miles back and forth across Plymouth during the night, at one point travelling several miles in one minute, travelling over rooftops and to the middle of the river. You can see the difference in how it was moving by comparing her normal meandering route and the route travelled that night – too fast for a car and not via the streets but over the houses.



"I have not believed in Santa since I was a child but think maybe she hitched a ride in his sleigh.” G-paws have a more prosaic answer. Managing director Dave Evans said: “I’m afraid the reality is rather less exciting. Occasionally when the unit runs a little low on power it will only take a partial reading and second guess where it is. It sometimes gets it wrong which results in spikes in the tracklog.”