Toronto man finds cat, lost for 13 years, on the same day his own cat went missing

A cat that went missing in Toronto back in 2011 has finally been reunited with its owner.

Mary Lynn Simon was at her desk at work when she got a very unexpected phone call.

"I could barely make sense of it," Simon told CTV News Toronto. "He said, 'Is Jinx missing?'"

Jinx, Simon's Abyssinian cat, had gone missing back in 2011.

"He was an indoor cat, and I had him since he was a kitten. And then when we moved, he would have been two years old, and he discovered the great outdoors."

Simon said Jinx had left home twice before, once getting into a stranger's car and going for a ride, the other when he was returned by a construction worker who had found the wandering cat and contacted Simon through the tags on his collar.

Over the past 13 years, Simon often wondered what had happened to Jinx, and whether or not he was even still alive.

"It's difficult," she said, "its sad."