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Cat reunited with owner after one year

Last updated: 20/04/2010 09:45:00

A cat which had been missing for almost a year has been reunited with its owner thanks to a pet charity.

Claire Seymour, from Keswick, near Norwich, spent months searching to find her missing cat who had escaped through a window. Without any leads she began to think she would never find him.

Feline Care Cat Rescue received reports about a heavily pregnant female that had been a stray in Poringland for six weeks. When the team rushed to admit the supposed expectant mother they realised they were in fact dealing with a very overweight neutered male.

Molly Cutmore, from the charity, said: “We were really relieved to find that this gentle giant was microchipped so somewhere a loving home was missing him.”

By using the National Microchip Reunification Database, Junior, who had been missing for 11 months, was reunited with his stunned but ecstatic owner.

It remains a mystery how Junior managed to find his way six miles from Keswick to Poringland but without his microchip he would never have found his home again.

Miss Seymour had kept her chip up to date so even after almost a year she was still able to be reunited with her three-year-old cat Junior.

Daughter was moving house and left her lovely 6 months old cat with us, when she finally was settled again got her lovely cat back after several weeks. She had a problem trying to settle him back down, then one day a friend left the door open and puss escaped.

18 weeks later he turned up at my house, over 100 klms away and was huge. He had to cross mountains and rivers to get there as well. Has always been a mystery how he did it. Yes, he then lived with us, refused to have anything to do with daughter, though she was pleased he was okay.

My oldest cat is now 19 years and 5 months old. She is also still fairly active.

Gail

Yes it is amazing, they seem to have a built in radar! That is a good story to start the day with.

Gail, what a wonderful home you must have given him to make him travel all that way back to you, bless him. His radar was certainly working well!

Lizx

We had trouble with a neighbours cat once, who would come in through the cat flap and settle on an armchair. She bit and scratched when we tried to move her, and kept coming back until our door was changed to one without a flap!