Tuesday, Dec. 07, 2010
Cat is back after 5 years
Microchip data brings Scrub home just in time for Christmas
Five years after Scrub failed to return home one hot, muggy, post-Katrina night, he’s back with battle scars, a wild side that’s new and his old habit of sleeping underneath a blanket on somebody’s bed.
Jennifer Noble of Biloxi thought the Humane Society of South Mississippi had the wrong cat as she listened last week to a message left on her husband’s office answering machine.
The message said they had a pet brought in with her information on his microchip. She had given away two kittens -- failed attempts to replace Scrub -- and figured the message was about one of those.
“‘Do you have a gray and white cat?’” Noble said a humane society employee asked when she returned the call. Scrub is a Russian blue and tabby, mostly gray with white markings. The other cats had been gray.
“You have my cat! Oh my gosh!” she remembers saying. “That cat has been missing for five years!”
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http://www.sunherald.com/2010/12/07/2696613/cat-is-back-after-5-years.html#ixzz17XaLe8XY