A missing kitten has been finally reunited with her owner sixteen years after vanishing from the backyard.
Sunshine disappeared from owner Carl Pullen’s garden in 2009 when she was around three-years-old.
Carl presumed the pedigree Bengal cat was stolen because the breed can be sold for many hundreds of dollars in England—and she was never recovered despite extensive searching.
Reluctantly, he moved away from his home in Hertfordshire the following year.
“I’d always figured she’d been stolen. I put up posters, appealed to find her, and she was microchipped,” said the 51-year-old. “It’s a good thing I never changed my phone number in all these years.”
Last week, he got the shocking call from a veterinary surgeon saying that a cat had been handed in as a stray, and asking if he owned a cat named Sunshine.
Now 19-years-old, the cat has been reunited with her family for the remaining years of her life.
“I don’t think she’s been a stray all this time—maybe just in the last few months.
“When I picked her up from the vet’s, she was underweight, her claws hadn’t been clipped, and she had bad kidneys.
“Since she’s been home, Sunshine has had some medication to perk her up a bit,” he told SWNS news. “She’s looking a lot better.”
“I was so surprised,” he told the BBC. “I was overwhelmed really as I didn’t expect to see her again, especially after all this time.”
“She’s 19-and-a-half years-old, which is 92 in cat years!”
“She might not be with us for very long, but at least she gets a nice retirement.”
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