Missing cat reunited with ‘ecstatic’ owner after six months apart, NC shelter says

A missing cat was reunited with her “ecstatic” owner after the two spent months apart, a North Carolina shelter said.

Surry County Animal Control celebrated the joyful reunion after the cat vanished in May. Then six months later on Halloween, someone picked up the stray feline in Mount Airy, roughly 35 miles northwest of Winston-Salem.

The animal shelter said it checked the cat for a microchip, a device that stores contact information about pet owners. The microchip led officials to a veterinarian in Florida, where the cat’s owner once lived.

It turns out, the owner had recently moved to Cana, Virginia, near the North Carolina border. The shelter reached out to him with the good news that his cat — named Catdog — was safe about 10 miles from his new home, according to a Facebook post.

“Catdog’s owner was ecstatic to find out we had located his girl and came right to the office to claim her,” Surry County Animal Control wrote in the Nov. 1 post.

Catdog — who bears the same name as the CatDog cartoon that aired in the 1990s and 2000s — is expected to spend her time inside her home after the long-awaited reunion.

The shelter has joined rescue organizations in encouraging pet owners to update their microchips in case their cats or other furry friends become lost.

Surry County Animal Control didn’t immediately share additional information with McClatchy News on Nov. 10, when it was closed for Veterans Day.

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