Lost cat returned home after nine years
 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080910/...uk_britain_cat

LONDON (Reuters) - A couple have been reunited with their missing cat after nine years, the RSPCA said on Wednesday.

Dixie, a 15-year-old ginger cat, disappeared in 1999 and her owners thought she had been killed by a car.

She was found less than half a mile from her home in Birmingham after a concerned resident rang the animal charity to report a thin and dishevelled cat who had been in the area for a couple of months.

RSPCA Animal Collection Officer Alan Pittaway checked her microchip and confirmed it was Dixie. She was returned to her owners, Alan and Gilly Delaney, within half an hour.

"In 29 years of working for the RSPCA I have never seen anyone so excited and happy as Mrs Delaney," Pittaway said. "It made my day to return Dixie to her owners."

The couple were "overjoyed" to be reunited with their missing cat after so many years.

"Dixie's personality, behaviour and little mannerisms have not changed at all," said Gilly Delaney. "We don't think she has stopped purring since she came back through the door."

The RSPCA hope the story will encourage owners to have their pets microchipped.

Wow. That's pretty cool.

Ha that is cool, I wonder if the cat had been that close the whole time.

Now, how do they know it's the same cat?

FAX

15+9=24. That'd be one old fuggin cat.

She IS 15.

The cat had a ID chip. It is pretty cool to get one back that you think was long gone.

Well, then the author should learn to write concisely.

I didn't realize microchips were around 9 years ago ... time flies I guess.

I have heard other stories about cats or dogs returning home from hundreds of miles away ... that's just weird.

Funny, I thought the replies to this thread would be a little different.

Antifreeze?

Did you want somebody to **** the cat?

According to the article, it was emaciated. Nobody wants to eat an emaciated cat.