It was a little girl in Philadelphia who found him, Koziak said. “He’s super docile and friendly. Always has been. And he walked right up to her. He made a friend,” Koziak said. “She brought him into the house with her parents and they made him some hotdogs. They could not keep him because they have another animal. So they called Animal Control.” ACCT Philly scanned the chip, she says, and the rest is history.
My heart, they made him hot dogs.
The article strangely doesn’t say the dog’s age. But it has a pic of him as a puppy in 2012, and says he was gone for 11 years.
Since the article was written in the last few days, that means that Forty-Cal was about 3 when he went missing, and was about 14 when he returned.
The article said that two dogs went missing from their backyard at once, and the other came back after a few weeks, so she thinks someone took them from her yard.
Presumably from his description as being friendly, he lived as a family pet for all these years, and then was abandoned.
Or not abandoned, but maybe got lost.
But yes he was definitely living with someone for 11 years.
A friend found her cat again after years in a city about 50 km away.
Someone in my country had a cat that disappeared during winter, then several years later it came back like nothing happened. Turns out it had walked on the ice to an island, the ice thawed and it wasn’t cold enough for it to fully freeze until those years later when the cat came back.
My cat did this. It wasn’t as far but still about 10 km. We think he hitched a ride on the neighbors truck. Thankfully, it was only a few months but it sucked.
Ours did this, about 6km, and thrice. He just didn’t like our new house, so he re-relocated. After the third time one of our former neighbors took him in.
Did you keep letting him outside?
He was an outside cat, and living in a ~300 souls village in the middle of the woods. This was his style and we knew we couldn’t take that from him for long. So after some days he let himself out while we were trying to get to school, buying groceries or just opening a window, he checked the new environment, decided he hated it and some days later he was gone.
I found my cat after about a month. She was maybe a block away. Acted like she didn’t know who I was when I trapped her. 🙄
Since I’ve become too disabled to feed our cat she doesn’t visit my bed to sleep with me anymore.
Entitled bastards, the lot of them. I had to re-home this cat soon after getting her back. I had a ~3mo and the cat kept biting the parts to my wife’s breast pump. She ruined two sets and I made the choice that feeding my son was more important. I still miss her. She went to a family friend. Died around Christmas I just found out. Wish things worked out differently, but she was a devil.
How did she find her cat 50km away?
RFID chip that got read out when someone brought the cat to a vet.
Gotcha
Did they recognize each other?
🥹🥹🥹
This brings me some hope I may one day be reunited with my best friend
A pitbull named Forty-Cal bought by a 16 year old with her own money. I hope her children got better names, but at least she got her dog back :-)
