Missing cat returns home six years after vanishing

Back home: Tabby and white cat Chloe
Cats Protection
Sebastian Mann24 April 2016

A missing cat has finally returned home - six years after disappearing.

Chloe, a tabby and white cat, vanished in 2010 after jumping from a pet carrier when her owner Rebecca Lee took her to the vets.

She lived as a stray and was later cared for by an elderly woman just over a mile away from her owner’s home in south Wales.

After eventually being handed into Cats Protection's Bridgend Adoption Centre, a routine scan of her microchip revealed her true identity.

Mrs Lee, who had believed Chloe had died in a road accident, said she was overjoyed to be able to have her back at her home in Caerphilly.

She said: "It was a real shock but lovely news to hear that Chloe had been found and was alive and well after so many years.

"Chloe had jumped from the pet carrier in the car park and we never saw her again.

"I put up posters and placed adverts and shortly after got a call to say a cat matching her description had been found dead by the roadside.

"I was devastated but came to terms with her death. Unbeknown to me at the time, it seems she had wandered as a stray before eventually finding an elderly lady who had taken her in."

Additional reporting by PA

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