Exciting: a cat lost 15 years ago has found its human

A cat who she got lost 15 years ago, she was reunited, older and perhaps wiser, with her owner. Monday afternoon, Brandy, a brown tabby cat, he saw his owner Charles again, who adopted her when the kitten was two months old in 2005.

“It’s incredible. I think it’s something inconceivable”, Charles commented adding: “I saw her, I hugged her and she started purring, and it was very touching.”commented the owner. “It was nice to have him in my arms again”.

“Yes, I started to cry because I thought about all the years that I had missed her,” he says. Brandy was found in Palmdale on Sunday, about 40 miles from the site where Charles lives in the San Fernando Valley, in the greater Los Angeles area. The computer technician, who requested that her last name not be used, said Brandy was only with him a few months after adopting her. “He went out to the back garden in the afternoon”he commented.

But when it was dark and the man came out to bring her into the house, the cat was not there. Charles drove the streets in his car looking for the kitten, checked animal shelters, and posted signs to no avail. “She was very sad. I wanted her to come back because when I adopted her I made a moral obligation to take care of her for the rest of her life,” he said.

The man feared he had been killed by a car or a coyote. “But I was hoping someone would pick her up off the street to take care of her, and I think that’s what happened.”, he pointed out. Charles went on with his life. He moved to another place in the valley and adopted two more cats. And then on Sunday, she got a call from the Los Angeles County Animal Shelter in Palmdale and another from the company that made the microchip implanted in Brandy when it was adopted. Charles had changed his address and phone number. But, luckily, his cell phone was the same as shown in the microchip information.

“I was skeptical. I thought it must have been a mistake “Charles said.

At the same time, he commented that he had thought that “maybe there is a possibility in a million that it was Brandy.” But after 15 years, it’s highly unlikely. “However, “I said, ‘Yeah, the chip doesn’t lie.’

Monday afternoon he went to Palmdale to find Brandy. She was older and very thin, he pointed out. Brandy needed a little help: she was malnourished and weighed only about 2.7 kilograms. “She was basically the same weight as when she was a kitten,” Charles said. His fingernails had grown enough to injure his paws. Charles suspects that someone found her when she was a kitten and kept her all these years, without bothering to search for an implanted microchip. She thinks she must have been left alone or run away several months ago.

But he added that she was the same calm, delicate and gentle cat he remembered. Charles decided he couldn’t bring Brandy to his one-bedroom apartment with his two other cats. But the cat stays with his sister, who lives nearby, and he plans to visit them often. “He doesn’t have a lot of energy. But she looks happy, ”commented Charles.

“Purrs a lot. She seems happy to have a home again, ”she said.

El Mercurio (Chile)