A Hawaii animal lover who misplaced her home and a number of other of her cats within the lethal Maui wildfires over the summer time acquired a name from a neighborhood animal rescue this week stating that that they had discovered one in every of 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 mentioned they believed they discovered her cat, the nonprofit rescue mentioned in a social media publish Monday.
But in a surprising 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 practically three years — nicely 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 mentioned. “Anna and a community cat trapper had searched tirelessly for him, but sadly, he was never found.”
When Anna and her husband acquired the decision from Maui Humane Society’s Cat Annex that that they had lastly discovered Hyssy and had him of their possession, they couldn’t consider it, the rescue mentioned.
“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” had 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 mentioned.
The rescue shared heartwarming pictures of Anna hugging Hyssy near her face in an emotional embrace.
Sadly, Anna and her husband are nonetheless displaced after the fireplace and live in a resort. A pal of the couple has since supplied to soak up the candy orange tabby till they will 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 nicely.
But Ming-Ming was solely one of many many cats the couple misplaced in the course of the devastating blaze. The rescue mentioned it’s working to reunite Anna together with her different beloved cats.
