News / Purrfect ending to cat mystery
THERE was a spot of confusion this week when a stray cat found in Northumberland had its microchip details traced hundreds of miles north to Shetland.
Local Cats Protection officers were unsure how the male cat ended up in the county in the north east of England and looked for help from the public.
The cat’s owner has now been located, and the feline – which is named Boris and is thought to be over ten years old – is set for an emotional reunion.
Alison Cole took the cat with her when she moved from Shetland to Northumberland a few years ago.
The moggy went missing before Alison moved to Orkney earlier this year and she thought she would never see the cat again.
Alison said she was “over the moon” to hear about her cat, which she took from Shetland to Ashington in 2014.
Boris moved into her neighbours, which Alison agreed with because she feels you “can’t have ownership of a cat” – but she didn’t know that they ended up chucking him out.
“I am over the moon and it has made my year,” she said. “I got him when he was six months old and we have been through a lot together.”
Shetland Cats Protection welfare officer Elissa Blankley said: “Boris is safe with fosterers down there and now they are trying to work out how to get him to Orkney so he can go home.”
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