A Michael Broad Blog
The caption to the picture below on the Reddit.com website is: “Our cat went missing October 2020. The animal shelter called and he is home. Pinch me I’m dreaming”. Another wandering cat is found and returned home. It is not uncommon. There are tens of thousands of stories of domestic cats being “lost” and …
Introduction – May 21, 2022: I am revisiting this page almost 7 years after I first wrote it in 2015. It’s a good thing to revisit pages especially when the topic is like this one. The proposal was that all indoor cats should wear an orange collar with a name tag. Should they escape …
HUMANE CANADA, the Federation of SPCAs and Humane Societies, has provided us with a very useful chart. It tells us that with respect to cats at their shelters there has been a 45% reduction in euthanasia rates over the period 1993-2020. Improved statistics In addition to the 45% drop in euthanasia of cats at …
This is the happy tale of two childhood friends, a teen and her cat, who were reunited through fate three years after the cat went missing from his home in Roseburg, Oregon. It began when 15-year-old Hannah Rountree began her job as a volunteer at Saving Grace Pet Adoption center. On her second day …
Thanks to a microchip, a teen has been reunited with the cat who wandered off from her home in Shorefields, Rainham (UK) almost ten years ago. Isobel Thatcher, 14, and her mother Julie, a teaching assistant, thought their cat Max had wandered away from home and most likely run over by a car. As …
“I really think my mother brought her to me so she wouldn’t die alone in the woods.” “It was all too much for our little body. Then it just became clear to me that she came back to us because my mom wanted to make sure she was safe and comfy when she passed… …
Thanks to a microchip, a Dutchess County, New York cat who accidentally escaped his home 11 years ago has been reunited with his owner. The reunion between Tiger and his owner, Maggie Welz, took place Thursday. It was made possible after Dutchess County SPCA staff member Carol O’Connell finally got close enough to pet …
Thanks to a concerned stranger, animal control and a microchip, a family in Connecticut has been reunited with the cat who escaped from them in 2016. Dooley was adopted as a rescue when owner Suzanne Monnes and her husband lived in Florida. While they were moving, Dooley made his escape in Madison. The family …
