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Jan. 11, 2024, 2:23 a.m. ET
A Hawaii animal lover who misplaced her home and several other of her cats within the lethal Maui wildfires over the summer time obtained a name from an area animal rescue this week stating that they’d discovered one among her fur infants — however the animal ready on the shelter was not who she was anticipating.
The Maui Humane Society referred to as the lady, recognized solely as Anna, and stated they believed they discovered her cat, the nonprofit rescue said in a social media post Monday.
But in a stunning twist, the orange-colored kitty they rescued from the streets was not one of many beloved cats Anna and her husband misplaced within the devastating fires.
Instead, it was their cat Hyssy who had been lacking for almost three years — effectively earlier than the August blaze.
“Before they lost everything in [the] fire, including their family home, Hyssy had already been missing for almost two years,” the Maui Humane Society stated. “Anna and a community cat trapper had searched tirelessly for him, but sadly, he was never found.”
When Anna and her husband obtained the decision from Maui Humane Society’s Cat Annex that they’d lastly discovered Hyssy and had him of their possession, they couldn’t imagine it, the rescue stated.
“Immediately, Anna and her husband dropped everything, rushed straight to our Annex location, and were able to share a long-awaited emotional embrace with him,” it wrote.
The tabby cat and his “Ohana” have been reunited simply hours after he arrived on the Annex location.
“The moment they came in, Hyssy recognized them right away, even after so long apart,” the Maui Humane Society stated.
The rescue shared heartwarming photographs of Anna hugging Hyssy near her face in an emotional embrace.
Sadly, Anna and her husband are nonetheless displaced after the hearth and reside in a lodge. A good friend of the couple has since supplied to soak up the candy orange tabby till they’ll discover a extra everlasting home.
The Maui Humane Society helped reunite Anna with one other of her fur infants, a cat named Ming-Ming, shortly after the fires as effectively.
But Ming-Ming was solely one of many many cats the couple misplaced through the devastating blaze. The rescue stated it’s working to reunite Anna together with her different beloved cats.
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