Yellow Cat has actually returned from the dead after a Canterbury family mistakenly buried the incorrect cat. Photo / Supplied
A family was shocked to discover they buried the incorrect cat after their precious tabby roamed in not long after a rash burial, leaving the owners questioning whose cat they simply decreased into the ground.
The mom has actually made a plea on social networks asking if anyone understands who owns the dead cat her family mistook for their own.
Belle Wallace-Cochrane, of West Melton, near Christchurch, said she was putting her boy to bed last Tuesday when her neighbour called her with ravaging news.
“She says, ‘I think I saw your cat on the side of the road.’
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“I live on a country road, so traffic is fast and I figured she must have been hit by a car.”
Wallace-Cochrane strolled outdoors in the cold and dark with rain putting down to discover a ginger tabby lying dead on the side of the roadway.
She instantly believed it was their family pet, Yellow Cat.
She inspected the cat’s head, took a look at its face and figured out rapidly it was their family pet.
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“I didn’t pick it up, because that’s gross, but I went inside and told my husband and said ‘You need to go and get the cat’.”
Her hubby and their 3rd kid, Lucas, gathered the dead cat and put it in a box.
An casual funeral service was kept in the rain as a hole was dug and package was buried on their property.
Wallace-Cochrane was inside when she heard Lucas run inside with news from the tomb.
“He came running in and yelled, ‘Yellow Cat is alive!’. I said he must be joking – he’s always telling jokes.”
As it ended up, Yellow Cat had actually made a last-minute cameo as the yard funeral service finished up, perhaps questioning what all the difficulty had to do with.
“My husband came inside and said, ‘Nah, that’s someone else’s [buried] cat.”
Now, Wallace-Cochrane’s family deals with the task of discovering whose family pet they have actually buried in their yard.
She is not eager to collect package without somebody advance.
Taking to social networks, she asked if anyone had actually lost a cat that matched the very same description.
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“I was relieved, we’ve had a few cats buried,” said Wallace-Cochrane.
“The ladies I work with were laughing about it and suggested it was a common thing, but it’s the first time we’ve experienced anything like this.”
