Missing cat Tigger turns up two years later – in Inverness

Published on Friday 22 May 2009 09:57

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."