Lost cat found inside Amazon delivery box 1000km away after six days missing

A curious cat has been found 1000km from where it went missing. It was discovered by an Amazon worker after six days in transit.

A curious cat that sneaked into an open box was shipped across the United States to an Amazon warehouse after its unknowing owners sealed it inside.

Carrie Clark’s pet, Galena, vanished from her Utah home on April 10, sparking a furious search that involved plastering “missing” posters around the neighbourhood.

Carrie Clark's missing poster for her lost cat Galena before she was found inside an Amazon delivery box hundred of miles away. Picture: Supplied

But a week later, a vet 650 miles (1000km) away in Los Angeles got in touch to say the cat had been discovered in a box — alongside several pairs of boots — by a warehouse worker at an Amazon centre.

The moment cat Galena was found inside an Amazon box by an Amazon warehouse worker. Picture: Supplied

“I ran to tell my husband that Galena was found and we broke down upon realising that she must have jumped into an oversized box that we shipped out the previous Wednesday,” Ms Clark told KSL TV in Salt Lake City.

“The box was a ‘try before you buy’, and filled with steel-toed work boots.”

Galena who was trapped inside an Amazon delivery box for six days while in transit across the United States. Picture: Supplied

Ms Clark and her husband jetted to Los Angeles, where they discovered Amazon employee Brandy Hunter had rescued Galena — a little hungry and thirsty after six days in a cardboard box, but otherwise unharmed.

Galena with the Amazon worker who found her inside a delivery box at a warehouse facility. Picture: Supplied

“I could tell she belonged to someone by the way she was behaving,” said Ms Hunter, according to Amazon.

“I took her home that night and went to the vet the next day to have her checked for a microchip, and the rest is history.”