Image supply, Charlotte Fleming
The two-year-old cat is recovering at home, and has been fitted with a tracker
- Author, Alex Green
- Role, Journalist, BBC South West
- Ted the two-year-old cat went lacking on 18 August from his home in Cranbrook close to Exeter
- He was discovered a month later in a kitchen roof house at Exeter Airport
- The cat was returned to its house owners secure and properly after airport employees noticed a publish on Facebook
A cat who went lacking for greater than a month was discovered within the roof of a kitchen space at Exeter Airport.
Ted, a black and white cat, was found within the roof of the airport’s base for personal planes and VIP passengers on Friday, after employees heard meowing above the kitchen.
After catching sight of the cat, employees on the airport’s XLR Jet Centre gently coaxed him in direction of a niche within the ceiling.
They then carried the two-year-old cat down and gave him some meals and water – earlier than monitoring down his house owners.
Image supply, Exeter Airport
Ted the cat was lacking from his home in Cranbrook for a couple of month
Ted’s household mentioned they’d given up hope of ever seeing him once more after he went lacking from his home in Cranbrook, 4 miles (6.4km) away from the airport on 18 August.
They mentioned the feline had climbed below the bonnet of a neighbour’s automobile to flee the rain and the automobile had pushed off.
“It was superb after I acquired the decision to say Ted had been discovered,” mentioned proprietor Charlotte Fleming.
“I genuinely thought that was it – we might misplaced him.”
Image supply, Charlotte Fleming
Ted was “skinny” and “on his final reserves” when he was discovered, in accordance with proprietor Charlotte Fleming
Airport employee Alex Stephenson mentioned he and his colleagues had been chatting within the kitchen space on the centre after they heard a meowing sound.
After coaxing the cat out of the ceiling and calming him down, Mr Stephenson and his colleagues then set about making an attempt to trace down Ted’s house owners.
He discovered a Facebook publish by Cats Protection’s Exeter Axhayes Adoption Centre, which highlighted an attraction from Ted’s household.
“The house owners had been so happy,” he mentioned.
“It’s good that we had been capable of assist.”
‘So skinny’
Mrs Fleming and her husband Rich mentioned they’d recognized Ted was final noticed on the airport as a result of they’d bumped right into a witness after they had been handing out leaflets within the space a few days after Ted went lacking.
Mrs Fleming mentioned she was grateful to all of the folks concerned in Ted’s rescue.
She mentioned they took the cat to the vets – who mentioned he was fortunate to have been discovered when he was.
“He was so skinny and was on his final reserves,” Mrs Fleming mentioned.
Ted has now been fitted with a tracker.
