by Jim Hunter
FIFTEEN weeks after disappearing Bobby the tabby cat has been returned to his Woolston home thanks to a microchip.
His owner Lisa Lewis, will be eternally grateful to the stranger who found Bobby and took him to a vet to be scanned.
Back at the beginning of May six and a half-year-old Bobby went missing from home in Woolston.
Lisa, his owner, posted all over social media in her efforts to track him down but with no success. His three feline siblings Heidi, Boris and Thomas were saying nothing, and his human brothers Kane, McKenzie, Fred and Ronnie were missing him pestering them for head rubs and tummy tickles.
Bobby wasn’t an overly sociable cat or a wanderer and seldom strayed any further than a couple of neighbours who gave him treats, so his disappearance was a real worry for lisa and the family.
After fifteen weeks had passed Lisa had a phone call from All Creatures Veterinary Centre in Rixton and feared the worst, thinking they were ringing to tell her that little Bobby had passed away.
Imagine her delight when they told her that someone had handed him in as he had been hanging around their sheds, and that he was very much alive and healthy.
How Bobby had found his way from Woolston to Rixton is a mystery. Perhaps he thought that feline lockdown restrictions had been lifted and decided to go on an adventure! Bobby isn’t telling where he’s been or what he’s been up to but is settled back at home, being spoiled, and enjoying his head rubs and tummy tickles.
Lisa will be eternally grateful to the stranger who took Bobby to the Vets who scanned him and discovered who he belonged to. A great and happy example of the importance of getting your pets microchipped in case they should ever go astray.
A happy ending to a fifteen-week mystery of the missing moggy.
