They drove the 108 miles to Rawlings， Wyoming. There they rendezvoused with a woman named Cathy， who’d come 118 miles from Casper to meet them. Cathy laughed when she saw Snoopy. “What a funny-looking little serious creature you are to be traveling in such style，” she teased. “Imagine， private chauffeurs across five states.” But that evening， when she phoned Rod in Indiana to report that Snoopy had arrived safely in Casper， she called her "a dear old girl" ， and admitted that， “If she were mine， I’d go to a lot of trouble to get her back， too.”
Snoopy went to bed at Cathy’s house a nondescript little brown-and-white dog， very long in the tooth， and woke the next morning a celebrity. Word of the seventeen-year-old puppy with a bad cold who was being shuttled across mid-America to rejoin her family had reached the news media. After breakfast， dazed by the camera but， as always， polite， Snoopy sat on a desk at the Casper Humane Society and obligingly cocked her head and showed off the new leash that was a gift from Cathy. And that night， in Fort Wayne， the Topps were caught between laughter and tears as they saw their old girl peer out at them from the television set.
With the interview behind her， Snoopy set out for North Platte， 350 miles away， in the company of a humane society official in Casper who had volunteered for the longest single hop on Snoopy’s journey. The two of them stopped overnight and arrived in North Platte at noon the next day. More reporters and cameramen awaited them， but as soon as she’d been interviewed. Snoopy was back on the road for a 138-mile trip to Grand Island.
Twice more that day she was passed along， arriving in Lincoln， Nebraska， after dark and so tired that she curled up in the first doggie bed she saw despite the growls of its rightful owner.
With a gift of a new wicker sleeping basket and a note “Happy to be part of the chain reuniting Snoopy with her family，” Nebraska passed the little dog on to Iowa. After a change of car and driver in Des Moines， Snoopy sped on and by nightfall was in Cedar Rapids.