When Miny Criner and her husband Luke first took Cat from the Peninsula Regional Animal Shelter in Virginia, he was quite reticent. His first position was to sit off to the side while the other kittens played, but Criner surmised that he really only needed his family to call him out.
She said “You could see in his eyes that all he wanted was love, according to Criner. It took some time, but the cat quickly adjusted to his new home and fell in love with every member of his new family. He fell in love with him the moment his parents introduced him, and there was never any doubt that the parent had made the correct decision in giving that timid young child a chance.”
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After joining his family, Cat developed in trust and began to enjoy wandering while running his year in an exploration. After another run, Criner attempted to call Cat, but he was nowhere seen near in the house.
While in the fear, Criner quickly contacted the woman who oversees the Last & Fun Pets – Hampton Roads, Virginia. Ask her for assistance in spreading the news, and she and her husband will do whatever they can to ensure their cat would return back to home. They left a litter box number of footprints in the hopes that the family members would assist him in finding his way home. They place small household items about the house and have their friends inspect them as needed. They fitted “posters” everywhere. Every night, they made their way through the neighbourhood while shouting his name, but they gave up after tryin and trying.
“Weeks stretched into years, then it did more, and every time it happened, the pain in my middle got a little bit bigger,” Criner explained.
Then, 536 days after Cat went missing, Criner received the call she had never imagined that someone has just found the cat.
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“I assume that they were mistaken,” Criner said. The message from “animal control” told me to contact the Peninsula Regimental Animal Shelter in order to get him. I arrived first with the least authorization to the shelter and entered through the doors with my tears coming out.
When Criner arrived at the shelter, she found out that a man had been feeding Cat, whom he mistook for a stray, for about a year. After Cat was hit by a car but survived, the guy alerted animal control, who sought a microchip and revealed Cat’s true identity. Criner immediately contacted the man who had discovered Cat and drove him to his home. Cat was eating a snack on the porch when she arrived, and as soon as they saw each other, it was as if no time had passed at all.
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“I sat on the stairs and invited him to come up to me in case he was scared,” Criner explained. “He jumped straight into my lap and purred.” “I began to walk towards the car where my husband, Luke (who has a really unique voice), was chatting with the person who had been feeding him, and Cat purred louder than I thought possible and gave me that first super long head boop.” It’s as if he nudged a small piece of my broken heart back in place.”
Cat settled in almost immediately when they returned home, greeting his furry siblings and reclaiming all of his old spots as if he’d never left. He and his parents have spent as much time as possible hugging and reacquainting themselves, and the entire family is relieved to have Cat back home.
She said “I hope our cat story gives hope to others who are missing their pets, that those who have unwittingly taken in someone else’s pet will check to see if they’re scanned so that pet can have a happy reunion with their family, and that someone else can feel the overwhelming joy we’re feeling.”
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