Everytime Briar wanders, decides to take a walk, explore... whatever it is he does, we always think he's lost. But, this proves he knows exactly where he's going.
Yesterday, I rode my bike to my friends house with Briar stashed in his Pet Pack. She lives about 3/4 mile away. I let him hang out in their atrium while I drank my coffee. We then rode another four miles to the beach. We let him run around with us on the sand dunes. On our way back at our usual meeting spot, I went my way home, and my friend went her way home.
A couple hours later, I receive a phone call from my friends' husband.
"I have Briar!" he says.
"What?" I question.
"I saw this orange cat chasing another cat, and then this little cat came running up to me like he wanted me to pet him, then I realized it was Briar!" He says very excitedly!
So I rush to their house to pick him up. I knock on the door and I hear my friends husband say, "Look, he knows! He's running to the door!".
As he cracks the door open, little Briar is there looking at me with his tail up as if he says "Ah hah, now I know how to get to your friends house, so the next time you disappear on me, I'm coming here to look for you!"
It's just crazy because we were there in the morning and there is NO way he would know how to get there. He was stashed in the Pet Pack, unless... he knows direction by sight. I have no idea.