Missing Morley cat turns up - in Edinburgh!
Tiger the cat who has been reunited with his owner Molly Hudson of Morley, Leeds. Tiger was missing for nine weeks and eventually found in Edinburgh.
IF CATS could talk, Tiger, a five-year-old tabby from Morley, would have a story and a half to tell.
The normally home-loving cat, given up for dead after he went missing from his family home at Watering Meadow in July, has turned up safe and well, 200 miles away in Edinburgh.
His baffled but delighted owner, Sandra Hudson, 46, said: “He’s very much a home cat, he doesn’t do anything, he’s hopeless and of all the cats in the street you would never thought he would be the one to go missing.
“I think the only thing that could have happened is that he got into a delivery van but whether he went straight to Edinburgh or got there via somewhere else we’ll never know.”
Tiger went missing on July 24, the day before the family went on holiday to Corfu.
On their return Sandra, her husband Paul and their two children, Tom, 17, and Molly, 13, put up posters and advertised in the Morley Observer & Advertiser and on missing cat websites for any news of him.
Just as they were giving up hope they got a phone call from a vet in Edinburgh who told them that for the previous four weeks Tiger had been making himself at home at a nursery in Edinburgh, the Cowgate Under Fives Centre.
Where he was for the previous five weeks and how he managed to survive remains a mystery.
The centre’s deputy manager Lian Higgins, 41, said: “Each morning when the janitor arrived at 6am he was waiting at the door for him. That’s when we began to realise he didn’t have a home.
“We decided to call him Freddie – he was so friendly with people and he would allow the children to pet him.
“He was always coming in to the nursery and making himself comfortable on something warm, like a printer or a hard drive.”
They also advertised locally to see if they could find Freddie’s owners but when no one came forward Lian offered to adopt him and so took him to the vet where his microchip was discovered.
Lian added: “I really am going to miss the guy.
“I was all set to adopt him if no-one came forward, but I am so glad he has been reunited with his owners.”
Paul and Molly collected Tiger from Lian’s home near the Forth Bridge and he’s now home and being kept in until he regains his bearings.
Sandra, added, “So many people round here knew he had gone missing so we thought it would be nice if they were told he had been found and had been reunited with us.”
Tiger’s adventure has raised the possibility that it may not have been his first.
Sandra explained: “He came to us three years ago.
“He just turned up one day, talked to my daughter and later we found him curled up in a toy pram in the garage.
“We advertised but nobody came forward to claim him and so gradually we took him in over four weeks and then said, if we are going to keep him we need to do it properly and so took him to the vet.
“He wasn’t microchipped so we got him microchipped and if we hadn’t we would never have got him back.”
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