Posted on 04/05/2012 11:09:20 PM PDT by beaversmom
An astonished cat lover has been reunited with her beloved missing moggy - 16 years after it first disappeared.
Pet cat Poldi walked out of the family home in Munich, Germany, in 1996 and was never seen again.
Poldi's family desperately tried to find the missing cat but to no avail and after months of looking they believed they would never see him again.
But an incredible 16 years later Poldi was found 20 miles away living in a forest.
The hikers who discovered the poorly puss took him to a local animal welfare centre where he and and his owner were identified by a tattoo on his ear.
The Munich Tierschutzverein Animal Rescue Centre spokesman Eveline Kosenbach said Poldi is now back with his relieved owner Monika Moser.
She said: 'The cat was not feeling well - and obviously wanted to be found. He is now enjoying being looked after...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
LOL! That’s a cat!
I think he was someone else’s cat for those sixteen years and then got lost or went off sick when the people found him.
Most likely this guy lived with humans somewhere and only recently went to the woods ... didn’t work out like he expected, so he found some humans and got the heck ‘out of the bushes’. Al Sharptoon been to Germany lately?
Germans making sure their cats have tattoo IDs - hmmmm . . . .
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