This Elderly Cat Found Her Way Back Home After Going Missing For 13 Years

This Elderly Cat Found Her Way Back Home After Going Missing For 13 Years

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When Boo ran away from home in 2005, at the age of four her owner Janet Adamowicz was completely heartbroken. She did everything she could to get her back home, by putting up posters wherever she could and placing ad’s in the local newspaper in her hometown Harrogate, England.

But after a year of searching and not finding Boo, she gave up and just hoped that she is healthy and that she found another loving home. Janet then decided to give two cats a new home. First, it was Ollie in 2008 and then Tessie in 2014.

Then suddenly 13 years after Boo went missing Janet got a surprising phone call. “I got a call on Thursday to say I had a cat missing,” Janet said. “I said ‘I don’t think I do, they’re both here’ – but they said we’ve looked on the system it says you own a cat called Boo. I thought it was weird, but I couldn’t believe it when I got to the vets and they had her there – and she still remembered me.”

“I don’t know where she had been, I think possibly a stray but kept being fed by strangers – or catching her own food.”

Thankfully Boo appeared to be in good health and has been all on her own all these years. She, however, did have some signs of dehydration and tiredness.

A woman found her in a town 40 miles away from where Janet lives, where she has been lurking for a few weeks and took her to Wicstun Vets in York.

“Boo was very lively as a young kitten and enjoyed the ou