Cat owner reunited with her missing moggy... after it turned up 10 years later and 250 miles away
21.06.2022 - 12:19
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A woman whose cat went missing 10 years ago has finally been reunited with her beloved pet after it was found - 250 miles away in Wigan. Donna Gallacher, 40, last saw her beloved British shorthair-cross - who she’d reared since he was a kitten - when he went missing from her home in Weymouth, Dorset.
Since then she worked tirelessly to track down the feline - putting ads in local papers, giving out flyers and regularly updating social media posts. And she had all but given up hope for the microchipped cat until a Manchester vet phoned to say bedraggled Chubbs had been found last month in Wigan.
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Donna said it was a 'surreal' moment when she found Chubbs would be returning to her, adding the cat was 'so happy' to be home finally. She said: "It was overwhelming. It hasn't quite sunk in. It's just surreal. I've been looking for him for 10 years.
"For him to just all of a sudden be reunited with me, it's a lot to take in. He is so happy to be home. I pick him up and he just purrs so much.
"Since he's realised he’s home and he's safe, he's spread out and made himself at home. He's loving life."
Donna, a charity volunteer, said when Chubbs suddenly went missing in 2012, she was left distraught and did everything she could to get him back. She said: "I put posters up everywhere and put flyers through people's letterboxes all around my immediate area, and I put ads in the local paper and it was on social media.
"I continued to keep updating it and sharing it, and I’ve done that for years. You drive past houses, and you look in windows, and you think could he be in there?"
Ten years later, she got a call to say that