Missing cat is finally back after 14 months
Published: September 5, 2006
AN overjoyed cat owner from Milton Keynes has been reunited with her beloved pet . . . more than a year after the mischievous moggy went missing in Northampton.
Brenda Hart, who works as a Police Community Support Officer, tried everything she could think of to track down Ella when the cat vanished from her mother’s house in Little Billing in June last year.
But 14 months after her disappearance, the six-year-old tortoiseshell cat was found just a few hundreds yards from where she went missing and was returned to Brenda after being identified through a microchip.
Brenda, of Emerson Valley, said: “I never gave up on her. I had talked with my boyfriend about getting another cat as I missed her so much, but it just didn’t feel right as I was sure she was still out there.
“When I saw her again I was over the moon. I was so relieved.”
Ella was staying with Brenda’s mother Marian in June last year while the 31-year-old moved house.
But one day she was accidentally let out into the garden and disappeared.
Brenda, a police community support officer for Thames Valley Police, immediately gathered together friends and family to hunt for the cat.
She placed advertisements in the Tuesday Citizen’s sister paper the Northampton Chronicle & Echo and put up posters across the town, although many of these were ripped down by vandals.
But 14 months after Ella disappeared she received a call from the RSPCA’s animal collection officer Sharon Knight to say the cat had been found.
The RSPCA officer had scanned the cat for a microchip and called the Petlog database who supplied the owner’s contact details.
She said: “It was heartbreaking to see her again. She could barely lift her head up and was very thin. She had been pushed from pillar to post and didn’t know what was going on. But she has made an amazing recovery. She is back to her normal self and is almost ready to go outside again, although I am quite nervous about that.
“I would urge all pet owners to have their animals chipped.
“Without the microchip we would never have seen Ella again.
“But for us this has had a happy ending.”
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