Emily the cat has been known to stray from her home in Appleton, Wis. But last time she not only strayed, she stowed away.

A month after she went missing, her veterinarian got a call from France, where factory workers had discovered her – wearing her ID tag – in a ship container.

Emily’s owner figures she slipped into the container while snooping around a local paper warehouse. He now has to pick up the tab to fly his tabby home.

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Speaking of curious cats, Fritz, a feisty feline in Luebeck, Germany, ran off with his owner’s toe.

Seems barefoot Udo Ried dropped a knife while he was slicing bread and chopped off a toe. While he was hopping around looking for a Band-Aid, Fritz snatched the detached digit and buried it in the garden.

Hospital officials said they could have re-attached it – had it been found.

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Then there was the young deer that browsed two boutiques in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C.

First he ambled into Diesel, where he began ramming his image in a mirror – until a store employee turned off the lights.

Then he sauntered into Ralph Lauren next door and camped inside a fitting room – where animal-control officers tranquilized him and returned him to nearby Rock Creek Park.

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Christina Goodenow of Medford, Ore., thought she was lucky when she won $1 million in the state lottery.

But she doesn’t think so anymore. She landed in jail after officials discovered she had used a stolen credit card to buy the winning ticket.

Now she not only won’t collect the jackpot, she faces charges of theft, forgery, identity theft and credit-card fraud.

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Talk about dropping in on your neighbors!

A woman in Solnechnaya, Russia, was relaxing in her bathtub when the wood floor gave way, sending her plummeting into the apartment below.

Her neighbors “seemed as shocked as I was when they saw me lying there naked in the bath in the middle of their living room,” she reported.