"Cat comes back, 9 years later." Just a nice and surprising story.

[Faygo Kid]

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." . . . http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080910/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_britain_cat

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[secondwind]

1. very heartwarming! Thanks for posting this............

[slackmaster]

2. Cats rule!

:toast:

[Faygo Kid]

4. Dogs drool! Oh wait, that's true - and I have three of each.

They all love each udder.

[sasha031]

3. if animals spoke our language

what comes to mind, I remember a show when I was a kid, The littlest hobo.

[Skip Intro]

8. If cats spoke our language, we'd probably be humbled by their intellect

and their willingness to hang with us despite ours

[StarryNite]

28. I remember that show.

It was wonderful.

[DarthDem]

5. Awwwwwwwww

Cat stories rule! Thank you so much for posting this. That's really sweet. I'm very happy for Dixie, Mrs. Delaney and her family. :-)

[kestrel91316]

6. I'd call that a tortoiseshell, not a ginger cat (ginger is orange tabby IIRC).

Happy ending. Wow.

I have all 3 of my kitties microchipped. It's a real good idea.

[hyphenate]

13. I'm slow on the uptake

I said the same thing! :D

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. Nice story. My wife volunteers at the local animal shelter. K&R

She "socializes" cats for adoption. Amazing how many people abandon cats or just get rid of them at the shelter. It's nice to see happy endings.

[janethussein]

9. Awww - I love my kitty-poops -

all 7 of them. That's a kewl story. Thanks. :hug:

[girl gone mad]

10. I'm holding out hope on one orange tabby..

one of the best cats I ever had.

The last day I saw him, I just knew something wasn't right. :( I even went out and looked for him about 2 hours after I let him out, which I never do. I just had the strangest sense.

He was a stray when I adopted him, so maybe he found his way back to his old home and maybe I'll see him again some day.

[morillon]

17. It does happen.

A few months after I moved into my previous house, I noticed that this cute little tortoiseshell kept hanging around. Her collar was so tight that it was cutting deeply into her neck, and when she finally let me near her, I took the collar off to make her more comfortable. Unfortunately, she gave me the slip right after that. I called the number on the rabies tag anyway, and the vet's office contacted their client. When the kitty showed up again, I put her on my screened porch until her people could come over to get her.

It turned out that the family had moved from a house a couple miles on one side of us to a house several miles to the south, and the cat, who had been very young at the time (hence the tight collar), had gotten confused about where she lived. She was missing for several years, so they had given up all hope of ever seeing Pixie again.

I love, love, LOVE orange tabbies. I hope yours comes back. :-)

[tuckessee]

23. There's an old saying that goes.....

Dogs remember faces, cats remember places.

[CatWoman]

11. awwwwwwwwww

:loveya:

[hyphenate]

12. Ahem....

Great story, but the picture doesn't show a ginger, it shows a tortie. A ginger is what we would call an "orange" cat. A tortie is a calico with a blending of the black, red and (sometimes) white markings, in a "tortoise shell" pattern.

Just saying.........


(I lost my Kira 5 1/2 years ago--I could only wish she would appear again in my life. I miss her!)

[Gormy Cuss]

14. Maybe Dixie was a ginger when she left

and the trauma of being on her own for nine years turned her into a tortie.

:P

[hyphenate]

15. Either that,

or she's one very dirty moggy!


(Interestingly enough, torties, calicoes and torbies are about 95% female, because the male can't carry both the red and the black gene--they carry only one, since it's a gender related gene. Things have changed somewhat over time, because more males are being born, though geneticists don't know exactly why. But if they (males) carry both genes, they are almost always XXY, and very, very rarely can procreate. On the other hand, ginger males are the majority, though there are still plenty of ginger females.)

[pansypoo53219]

16. why mine are hostages.

but they have stokholm syndrome, so they loves me.

[Festivito]

18. Look calico, like mine, part orange, part black&white.

Mine looks like hunks of orange cat were patched into place. Adores me. Indoor/outdoor. Came to me as an abstinence-only trained teenager.

Missing for a week once. Came back with a broken leg. Healed now. Always makes effort to visit me once a day for about three minutes.

If like mine, it's madly loyal.

[ThoughtCriminal]

19. The Cat Came Back!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNyqXsv4Ueo

[Arugula Latte]

20. Awww... Sweet kitty.

Glad she's back. :loveya:

[Fleshdancer]

21. 9 years? That cat can really hold a grudge

I'm a dog person, but I've read enough cat threads in the lounge to know that cats hold grudges and that humans are their slaves. I wonder what this owner did. Bought the wrong food? Didn't clean the litter box fast enough? Well whatever they did, I'm sure these humans learned their lesson.


:rofl:

[goodgd_yall]

22. Good lord---what had the cat been up to all that time? n/t

[Withywindle]

27. Sleazy day-trading deals.

Figured, "Well if this goes south I can always go back and play dumb for food."

[whistler162]

33. catting around of course!

[ThatsMyBarack]

24. I love HAPPY kitteh stories!

We ought to have them more often! :loveya:

[Egnever]

25. he was found less than half a mile from her home

Did they look for the cat?

[KathieG]

26. Awww...I love happy endings!

[asdjrocky]

29. Once Dixie was securely in the lap of Gilly-

And all the ruckus had died down she looked at her human and said, "First, change my name we live in London for bloomings sake. And no more dry food, ever. Nuff said luv?"

[stevedeshazer]

30. Nothing better in the world...

I'm scratching my old dog's ears now, he's fifteen years old, too.

Long live Dixie. The cat.

[roguevalley]

31. animals make you a better person. I love this story. thank you.

[whistler162]

32. And then leaves again when its human failed to.....

buy the correct food!