A household from Suffolk mentioned they obtained a “Christmas miracle” when their lacking cat returned home after six months.
Westley, who disappeared in June, amazed his house owners when he turned up on Christmas morning.
“It was a very pretty day for all of us. He’s had a variety of treats,” mentioned Naomi Pierson, from East Bergholt.
Worried that Westley had been in an accident, the household might hardly imagine he was unscathed.
Ms Pierson mentioned: “He’s fairly an adventurous cat, however he would at all times come home.
“We thought ‘he’d be again in a day or two’, however weeks glided by and he did not return.”
During Westley’s unplanned absence, Ms Pierson needed to have troublesome conversations together with her youngsters.
“We talked about possibly he is discovered some other place, he may need died. My daughter was most upset considering ‘he is gone some other place and forgotten about us.'”
Since his shock return on 25 December, the household, who’ve owned Westley for about two years since he was a kitten, have been making a giant fuss of him.
Ms Pierson mentioned: “He was very nervous at first and he spent the entire day snuggling us.
“He appears very wholesome and well-fed, so we really feel he hasn’t been stray for that point.
“We’re fairly nervous that he has been in someone else’s home and so they’ve saved him, which we discover actually unhappy as a result of it is triggered a variety of upset and we have missed him lots,” she mentioned.
They have now purchased their adventurous companion a monitoring collar.
So far, Westley has not wandered too far, which Ms Pierson mentioned “may be very reassuring”.
“We undoubtedly don’t desire it occurring once more.”
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