It didn't take Rupert long to settle back in at home and be reunited with his mate.

It didn't take Rupert the cat long to settle back in at his West Melbourne home with his mate. Photo: Supplied



A missing pet cat who disappeared from his West Melbourne home and turned up in Traralgon, about 165 kilometres away, is believed to have hitched a lift with a train.


Rupert's owner Bec Gilchrist said she nearly ran her car off the road when she received a phone call from Latrobe City Council to say her ginger cat had been discovered in the Latrobe Valley town, about a two-hour drive from Melbourne.


Ms Gilchrist said Rupert, usually an easily-spooked homebody, had run away from her West Melbourne backyard on February 18.


Rupert the cat hitched a lift with a train to Morwell and was missing for three months.

Rupert likely hitched a lift by train to the Latrobe Valley, and was missing for three months. Photo: Facebook



Dozens of missing posters and 200 letters to neighbours failed to find the two-year-old cat, who Ms Gilchrist hand-reared after finding him dumped in a rubbish bin as a kitten.