Cat Comes Home Weeks After Being Kicked Off Bus

POSTED: 10:06 am EST December 21, 2006

PIKESVILLE, Md. -- Athena the cat knows her way home.

Three weeks after she was chased off a bus in Maryland, the black cat with green eyes has made her way back to her owner.

Athena's owner lives in New York and had been visiting her parents in Maryland over Thanksgiving. Athena got loose from her carrying case after her owner fell asleep. Thinking she was a stowaway, the bus driver let her off about 20 miles into the trip.

Owner Ali Streimer didn't know she wasn't supposed to take the cat on the bus.

After three weeks of frantic searching, Athena finally was spotted near the bus stop where she and Streimer first got on.