Cat lost after boarding FedEx truck

A Three Forks woman has been searching for her cat after he stowed away on a FedEx truck and disembarked in Whitehall.

Surveillance camera footage shows the cat, Mango, entering the vehicle on Saturday outside his home in Three Forks, according to his owner, Natalie.

“I saw my cat go in the FedEx truck from my cameras at my house on Saturday, and I called right away the FedEx 1-800 number, and they weren't very helpful,” Natalie said Monday. “So, I had to wait ‘til Monday and called a local one in Belgrade and got ahold of a gentleman named Jesse, and he was able to reach out. It was a contract worker that was driving in the FedEx truck.”

Jesse discovered the driver recalled seeing a cat jump out of her truck in Whitehall.

“And they asked what address that was, and she was Hispanic and didn't speak English, she couldn't tell them,” Natalie said.

Jesse reportedly called all 22 homes where the driver stopped in Whitehall on Saturday.

"And one of them ... said she remembered the cat,” Natalies said. “And she fed him Saturday night, and then she hadn't seen him since. And then last night across this field from where he was seen the first time, these people saw him on their ring camera, but they're on vacation in Florida. So, I got permission to come out to their house and that's where I'm at.”

Mango, 3, is said to be an unusual cat. He was raised among great Danes.

“He thinks that he's one of the great Danes,” Natalie said. “He sleeps with them, hangs with them. I live in the country, and my neighbors, when they're out haying, he jumps on their tractors, and he rides on their tractors. He's not a normal cat.”

Natalie got Mango from someone in Great Falls. He might be a cross between a Main Coon and Norwegian Forest Cat, she said. Her household has had lots of cats before -- mostly to keep mice away -- but Mango is the only one that's been “humanized,” she said.

“He'll climb in the bathtub,” she said. “He gets in the shower after you're out. He's just kind of an odd duck.”

Mango has gotten into a lot of vehicles, according to Natalie.

“Anybody who comes in my driveway, he jumps in their vehicle,” she said. “But they see him, you know, and they put him out.”

The camera footage reportedly shows the delivery driver leave the truck’s door open as she makes the delivery.

“We were talking, some neighbors and I -- that could have been a small child that climbed in there, because when she went back over to shut her door, she didn't even look in her truck. She just walked over, pushed the door shut, and walked around the front and got in her truck and took off. Back in the day -- I've been up there 27 years -- we used to have regular FedEx people, like the same person all the time, and now we have so many different contract workers, they're not even from here. I think they're from Texas or somewhere. They're all Hispanic. They don't speak English. But they, you know, they deliver. They do a good job.”

Mango has recently had a haircut, so he’s not long-haired at the moment -- at least not all over. He gets a haircut every six months.

“Because he hunts and he gets all matted and cockleburred if I don't, because he likes to go out in the alfalfa fields,” Natalie said.

Natalie has gone out to Whitehall the last two days since Mango went missing. On Monday, she was walking around calling him, and she brought his bed with his blankets and some food to leave out there.

“He's super friendly, but since he doesn't know where he's at, I'm sure he's scared,” she said.

Anyone who sees Mango is encouraged to call Natalie at 406-570-6720.