After a Five-Year Mystery, Missing Cat Discovered Safe Only Two Miles Away!
Fred, a ginger tomcat, disappeared from his Suffolk home in 2019. His owner, Kat Owen, and her family had only recently settled in Sudbury after moving from Colchester.
For years Kat and her family walked the streets calling for Fred, with no luck.
Kat told BBC Radio Suffolk how upset she was. “There was a lot of ugly crying,” she admitted. Every ginger cat she saw made her think it might be Fred.
Five years later, while she was on holiday in Kenya, a call from a Sudbury number brought the news: Fred was alive and well, and had been living just two miles down the road.
Ardmore Vets in Sudbury had scanned the microchip of a cat brought in for a health check, which revealed who he was. An elderly man had taken Fred in six months earlier, finding him furless and starving.
Kat’s reunion with Fred at the vet’s was emotional, and what came next was hard. Fred and the elderly man, who lived alone, had clearly bonded. Despite the ache, Kat let Fred stay with him, and she visits to keep up the connection.
Where Fred spent the five years in between remains his secret.
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