Montreal family ‘shocked’ after pet cat found after 8 years, 165 km away from home
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A Montreal family is celebrating the return of a long-lost family pet after she turned up at the Ottawa Humane Society eight years after she first went missing.
A Montreal family is celebrating the return of a long-lost family pet after she turned up at the Ottawa Humane Society eight years after she first went missing.
Indie, now 11, is proof that the cat came back — it just took a bit longer than expected.
The black and white tuxedo cat has been reunited with her family after being found by a passerby and brought to a humane society 165 kilometres away from home.
It was a happy discovery for her original owners, who were surprised when they got the call.
“I was shocked, to say the least. It was a big surprise, but a happy surprise,” Grant Pretorius says.
“I used to call her Houdini, ’cause you never knew where she was going to turn up.”
But she performed the ultimate disappearing act when she went missing and was not seen again for eight years.
Pretorius says despite putting up posters and searching the area for several weeks, he could not find her.
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