From cats getting lost in a blizzard to blind dogs sniffing their way home, here are 12
pets that were found after being lost!!
12.)
Dixie the Cat The Delaney’s made an extensive search,
and went asking door to door, when their cat, Dixie, disappeared in 1999.
However, Dixie was nowhere to be found.
Eventually Alan and Gilly were forced to reconcile themselves to the fact that Dixie was gone
for good.
But in 2008, 9 years later, a stray cat was reported to the RSPCA in Birmingham, England.
The resident who reported the cat said that it had been seen in the area for a couple
of months.
When vets checked the cat for a microchip, they found that it was the Delaney’s cat.
Dixie had been picked up less than half a mile from her old home!
Within 30 minutes Dixie was back in the home she had missed for 9 years.
The RSPCA officer said: "In 29 years of working for the RSPCA I have never seen anyone so
excited and happy as Mrs Delaney.
It made my day to return Dixie."
According to Gilly, Dixie promptly settled down as if she had never left.
Her personality, behavior and little mannerisms haven't changed at all.
The only noticeable change is the continuous happy purring.
11.)
Piko-Chan the Budgie In 2012, a pet parakeet named Piko-Chan was
returned safely to his guardian in Sagamihara, Japan, after miraculously reciting his address
to police officers.
Piko-Chan’s guardian was so afraid of losing another parakeet, like she had lost her previous
one, that she taught Piko-Chan to recite his address, just in case he was lost.
According to USA Today, the baby-blue budgie escaped from its home in Yokohama, Japan on
Sunday.
He flew for some time until finally flying into a hotel window, and “perching on the
shoulder of a guest.”
From there, Piko-Chan was handed over to police but remained silent for two days.
It was then that Piko-Chan not only began talking, but he actually recited his home
address including the city, district, block and street number of his owner’s residence.
In addition to all this information, the bird also told them his name!
Luckily, for both the guardian and Piko-Chan, they weren’t separated for long.
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10.)
Manuela the Tortoise Manuela is not your typical lost out in the
wilderness story.
In fact, this whole thing happened inside the house where Manuela lived.
Manuela, a red-footed tortoise owned by the Almeida family in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
went missing in 1982.
But 30 years later, Leandro Almeida discovered the beloved turtle while clearing out an old
room that had been used for junk storage after the death of a family member.
Can you imagine??
Leandro was throwing out a box when a neighbor asked if he was throwing out the tortoise
as well?!
The family then realized that Manuela had been nestled among the junk the whole time.
The question then became how Manuela lived without being fed as, according to the vet,
these types of tortoises can live without food for a couple years but not three decades.
The vet then came to the conclusion that Manuela probably survived off of eating termites or
other insects off the wooden floor.
With that much junk in the room, who knows what else was there!!
9.)
Turner the Cat Turns Up Turner the Cat is an excellent story of why
you should never give up on finding your pets, if they are ever lost.
Turner went missing at nine years old.
Because of their location, the family feared Turner had been eaten by Coyotes.
However, two years later, Turner was found by a rescue group about five miles from his
home in Marin County, California.
Luckily Turner had a microchip and the rescue group was able to identify his family.
Turner’s owner, David, was stunned when he got the word that Turner had been found.
“We just could not believe it,” he said.
We’re still pretty blown away by all this.”
And that, is why your pets should always have a microchip!!
8.)
Scribbles the Horse On the morning of November 13, 2012, Brittany
Wallace found her beloved horse on Facebook.
When Brittany was a child, she realized she had outgrown Scribbles and gave him to a wonderful
home, where she could visit her horse whenever she wanted, until Scribbles disappeared one
day.
The woman refused to give her information on Scribbles’ whereabouts and the horse
was lost.
Somehow Brittany found a picture of her old dear friend bleeding and injured and on a
way to a slaughterhouse.
Not sure how she found this picture!!
Brittany stated she knew the picture was of Scribbles when she saw the face.
She called the transporter, who was able to identify a scar that Scribbles had under her
tail.
From there, Brittany and the transporter made arrangements for Scribbles to make it back
to Brittany’s home.
Finally, on December 13, 2012, Scribbles and Brittany were together again!
7.)
Ginger the Basset Hound You might have heard the saying that pets
will never forget you.
Well, this story of Ginger the Basset Hound is proof that this is absolutely true!
Ginger and his human dad lost contact with each other when Ginger’s parents were getting
a divorce.
Ginger went to live with her mother and never saw her dad until about a decade later.
Ginger was put up for adoption by her human mother at a local shelter, and then adopted
and surrendered by an elderly couple because they could no longer take care of her.
Ginger’s dad recognized her description – even without a photo – while browsing
the listings when he was looking for a new pet.
When Ginger’s human dad came to get her, 10 years after the divorce, a 13-year-old
Ginger came right over to her dad, kissed him, and has not left his side since.
6.)
Ginger the Cat Ginger the Cat had quite an adventure when
he escaped his cage at the veterinarian’s back in 2013.
(Ginger is apparently a very popular pet name!!)
Ginger, who was about 4-years-old at the time, was missing for almost two weeks in the dead
of winter and the weather was terrible!
By the way Ginger only had one eye!
He slipped out of his cage while being taken for treatment by his owner.
Over ten days, Ginger braved a blizzard, survived the outdoors in frigid temperatures, and crossed
at least 30 main roads to make his way back home.
Ginger’s human companion said she only found Ginger outside after he had turned on one
of the security lights behind the house.
“I thought I was seeing things.”
Ginger’s companion stated, “Not only has he made his own way home but he has done it
in the hardest weather conditions.
I am so happy and relieved to have him back.”
The vets said they had never heard anything like it before!
5.)
Buster the Hurricane Survivor The O’Donovan family lost their dog, Buster,
a Rhodesian Ridgeback and German Shepard mix, when he ran away from his home in Belle Harbor,
Queens in New York City.
Workers were assessing damage brought on by Hurricane Sandy and he must have slipped out.
With no electricity and no Internet, Ms. O’Donovan could not do a proper search for Buster.
According to reports, Buster had been missing for two weeks and was going to be euthanized
at the animal shelter within 24 hours when his human companion found his picture online.
“I looked at the photo and knew it was him,” said O’Donovan, who went with her children
on December 14, 2013 to bring Buster back home just before his euthanasia appointment.
That was a super close one!!!
4.)
Örvar the Cat In 2007, Örvar’s human companion decided
to adopt a dog, which did not sit well with Örvar and the cat took off.
Örvar’s dad checked in regularly with his local animal shelter for quite some time.
But after a couple of years, he came to the conclusion that his cat was either dead or
had been adopted by someone else, hopefully someone nice.
However, in 2014, Orvar’s human companion received an email from his local animal shelter
with surprising news: Örvar, who had a microchip, had been found!
His owner said, “At first I really couldn’t believe it.
I did not know what to expect.”
When he arrived, the shelter told him that his cat was shy and stayed in the corner but
when he called out his name he came running, and climbed on top of him.
His owner was so happy and it was as if they had never been apart.
3.)
Abby the Blind Dog Abby first disappeared from her family’s
home in December of 2012 during a snowstorm with temperatures below zero.
Because Abby was blind, her human family felt they would never see their 8-year-old dog
again.
Abby had made her way through miles of frozen Alaskan terrain until she found a warm home
to take her in.
Luckily for Abby, the freezing temperatures had not affected her.
While Abby had no microchip, the wonders of social media were able to reunite her with
her family right around Christmas, and their reunion was definitely a Christmas miracle!
The vet, who found Abby and eventually her companions, stated she had to have found her
way by sniffing.
2.)
Shelby the Long Lost Cat When Shelby went missing from her home in
Victoria, Australia, in 2001, Paula Harper-Adams thought she’d seen the last of her.
Thirteen years and four sons later, a stray black-and-white cat showed up at their home
one day.
Harper-Adams took the scrawny, matted, lice-ridden stray to a vet and then noticed its marking
were similar to Shelby's.
So Harper-Adams dug out some old photos of Shelby to compare them.
Shelby’s companion also had the veterinarian staff compare them, and they all came to the
conclusion that it was indeed the same cat.
Shelby, who is now 17 years old, gave no clue as to where she had been, but somehow, she
found her way home.
1.)
Nigel The Parrot In 2010, Nigel managed to fly away from his
California home.
Nigel’s human companion searched for him but with no luck, and eventually figured Nigel
was gone for good.
However, four years later, someone found a stray parrot and took him to the vet.
The vet scanned his microchip and found Nigel’s owner!!!
To his surprise, the parrot no longer spoke with a British accent, like he had been when
he left four years earlier.
Instead, Nigel had learned to speak Spanish!
After a story about Nigel aired, his owner found out that Nigel had been living with
the Smith family during the whole time he was missing.
They had purchased him for $400 at a yard sale shortly after he disappeared.
A member of the Smith family contacted Nigel’s owner and explained that her grandfather had
formed a close bond, renaming him Morgan, after his wife died.
Nigel’s owner, touched by the story, decided to officially rename Nigel, Morgan and brought
him back to the Smith family.
Still not sure how he learned to speak Spanish!!
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