‘Tips’ vanished from the vicarage in Llawhaden at the end of April.
Despite duplicated efforts by her owner, regional vicar Sophie Whitmarsh, to track her through social networks posts and by passing the cat’s microchip information on to their veterinarian, all efforts to discover little Tips stopped working.
But today, Sophie received a call from a neighbour mentioning that she thought Tips might have gone back to the area – albeit to the incorrect house.
“Initially I was a little surprised as well as a little sceptical,” said Sophie.
“Four months is a long time for a cat to go missing out on, especially a cat like Tips who doesn’t head out quite. And when she does endeavor into the garden, she quickly returns into your home.
“She’s also quite a savvy little creature so we knew that if she’d wandered off too far, she would have been able to make her way home.”
The neighbour notified Sophie that the black and white cat had very first appeared at her home the previous week.
“My neighbour had begun feeding her because at the time she didn’t know that Tips was missing,” continued Sophie.
“But when she started looking for clues on our community Facebook page, the only missing cat she kept coming across was ours.”
The minute that Sophie clapped eyes on the cat, she understood immediately that it was Tips.
“She has a very distinctive little scar on her nose, so I knew immediately that it was her,” she said.
“I was over the moon and when my kids came home later on that night, they sobbed and sobbed. Even my other half invested the night sitting along with her and rubbing her.
“After all that time away, we believed that we’d lost her and that we’d never see her again.”
As quickly as Tips was returned into the vicarage, she started making herself feel at home.
“She right away began rolling around on the flooring and rubbing up versus the couch and hearing that little purr once again was so charming.
“She’s lost a little weight from her back end, however it’s apparent that she’s been fed and cared for someplace. But we’d provide anything to learn where she’s been all this time.
“Maybe she delved into the back of a shipment van and was taken a couple of towns away, given that when she’s been attempting her finest to discover her method home.
“We’ll probably never find out. But the most important thing is that Tips is home with us again, safe and sound.”
