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Missing cat Tigger turns up two years later – in Inverness

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Published Date: 22 May 2009
A CAT has been reunited with its owner in Edinburgh after going missing for more than two years.
The free-roaming feline, called Tigger, who went missing in May 2007, was picked up just last week by the SSPCA in Inverness, more than 150 miles away from home.

The ginger tomcat was identified through a microchip in its fur, and was taken back down to the SSPCA headquarters in Dunfermline to be picked up by delighted owner Carole Tait yesterday.

The 58-year-old said: "I'm absolutely ecstatic, when I got a phone call from the SSPCA the other day I didn't think for a second it would be about Tigger."

Alistair MacLeod, SSPCA chief superintendent in Inverness, made the journey south to deliver the cat and said that it was not clear how the pet had managed to travel from Edinburgh to the city of Inverness.

He said: "He might have jumped on to a car or a lorry, or it's possible that a student befriended him in Edinburgh and took him home to keep.

"This story amply displays the importance of microchip technology, and of making sure people get their pets properly tagged."





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Watch Us Wreck The Mic, Psyche.,

tube tube tuba 22/05/2009 14:06:59
Poor Tigger, just when he thought he had made it far enough from home to never be found, his damn microchip gets scanned by an SSPCA worker.
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Kitti Kat,

Newtown Square 04/06/2009 19:19:48
Another reson that cats should not be permitted to roam around out of doors. Tigger and his owner are very lucky to re-unite so the chip was worth the cost. However, even with a chip some animals are never found or found dead along the road. So, be a responsible pet owner and neuter or spay your cats and keep them indoors. Litter boxes are not expensive and when cleaned daily, there is no problem.
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Chief Apologist,

10/07/2009 05:34:46
How wonderful. Lassie Come Home eh?

 

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