Lost Cat Gets Reunited with her Family 14 Years Later

[Lorien]

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/lost-cat-gets-reunited-with-her-family-14-years-later.html




If your cat’s been missing for nearly 14 years, the last thing you’d probably expect is to actually find it. But that is exactly what happened with Tiger Lily. She had been missing since October 12, 1996 and now she’s found!

Many cats don’t even live to be 14 years old so her owner, Ingrid Kerker, must be one happy lady. As you can imagine her shock when the Oakbank Animal Hospital called her to say they’d located Tiger Lily. She was identified by a code tattooed on the cat’s ear (tattooing is to microchipping as VHS is to DVDs).

I can’t imagine what it is like to lose a pet. My cat–her name is Lola–is currently passed out on a Snuggie. When Tiger Lily went missing the Kerkers wrote the date down in the family bible. They had done everything to find her but had no luck.

“We thought a fox got her,” Ingrid Kerker said Monday. “She just disappeared. We put up posters but she was never returned.”

The reunion was a happy one. Tiger Lily was as affectionate as the Kerkers remember. Their two boys were overly excited as they have family photos with Tiger Lily, napping together, back when they were toddlers. They don’t know where Tiger Lily was these past years but her rescuer said she could smell diesel fuel on the tabby.

“If only she could talk, what a story,” laughed Kerker.

The Kerker household currently has two cats and a dog. So Tiger Lily will have some adjusting. They say she is warming up to the cats but the verdict is still out on the dog.

Welcome back, Tiger Lily!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. At first I read the thread title as "Lol Cat Gets Reunited with her Family."

Obviously I spend too much time on the Internet. But what a great story -- I wonder where the cat has been all that time.

[kimi]

2. Omigosh

The stories I bet Tiger Lily could tell. I'm so glad that she was able to find her way home before it was too late. What a nice story, thank you for sharing it!