{"id":242433,"date":"2023-11-28T17:10:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T17:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/?p=242433"},"modified":"2023-11-28T17:10:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T17:10:09","slug":"missing-cat-comes-home-just-in-time-for-christmas-after-11-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/world-news\/missing-cat-comes-home-just-in-time-for-christmas-after-11-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing cat comes home just in time for Christmas&#8230; after 11 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Family are over the moon to be reunited with their missing cat just in time for Christmas&#8230; 11 years after he disappeared<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Fugitive tabby Toby disappeared from his home in Nuneaton in 2012\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s the purrfect end to an uncertain tail: a tabby who disappeared almost 12 years ago and was presumed dead has come home just in time for Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Fugitive tabby Toby had disappeared from his home in Nuneaton, Warwickshire in 2012 during a house move &#8211; and his owners, the Allan family, had long assumed he wouldn&#8217;t be coming back.<\/p>\n<p>But in a miraculous twist, Toby was identified after a local woman phoned her local Cats Protection branch to tell them she had been feeding a little visitor, and to ask if they might check if he was microchipped.<\/p>\n<p>The well-intentioned woman, from\u00a0Bedworth, thought that Toby was pregnant, and female. While her guesses were wide of the mark, she nevertheless reunited the little runaway with his family after a volunteer came out armed with a microchip scanner.<\/p>\n<p>After scanning his chip and identifying his owner, Cats Protection called up the Allans to ask if they had a missing moggy &#8211; not realising that Toby had been on the lam for almost 12 years.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/28\/16\/78331241-12800601-image-a-25_1701187910350.jpg\" height=\"847\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Toby the fugitive tabby from Nuneaton, who has been reunited with his family after almost 12 years on the run<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/28\/16\/78331235-12800601-image-a-26_1701187914159.jpg\" height=\"507\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Toby&#8217;s owners, the Allan family, had long assumed that he had died after disappearing during a house move. He is pictured here in 2009 before he disappeared<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/28\/16\/78331237-12800601-image-a-27_1701187947226.jpg\" height=\"845\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>But the moggy is home in time for Christmas after he was identified thanks to his microchip<\/p>\n<p>Toby&#8217;s owner Justine Allan said she had long assumed that Toby was dead, as they live on the Long Shoot, a &#8216;notorious&#8217; A-road in the town.<\/p>\n<p>She said: &#8216;I never thought in a million years I\u2019d see him again.\u00a0[My son Charlie] was about 12 when Toby went missing, and he was heartbroken when we realised he probably wasn\u2019t coming back.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The Long Shoot is a notoriously busy road, we just assumed the worst had happened and thought he had been run over.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I can\u2019t believe he survived all this time, the odds were stacked against him, but here he is. I just wish he could tell us what happened.&#8217;<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0Cat owners could face \u00a3500 fine unless their pets are microchipped before 20 weeks old under new law\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>Toby is making himself at home again &#8211; but the mischievous mog is being kept under lock and key for a few weeks to make sure he doesn&#8217;t disappear again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But by all accounts, he&#8217;s feline fine &#8211; with no suggestion that he has come to any long-term harm.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Allan added: &#8216;We now have a year-old King Charles Cavalier named Bernie. Toby is a typical cat and couldn\u2019t care less but Bernie is not adjusting quite so well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He doesn\u2019t seem different at all, he\u2019s obviously been cared for and fed by somebody. I never thought in a million years I\u2019d see him again.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>At the very least, the reunion has guaranteed the Allans a happy mew year.<\/p>\n<p>Cats Protection is using Toby&#8217;s Christmas miracle to urge owners to ensure their beloved felines are microchipped &#8211; in case their own pets disappear in future.<\/p>\n<p>Microchipping will become a compulsory legal requirement\u00a0in England from June 2024, with those who do not comply facing a \u00a3500 fine.<\/p>\n<p>Wendy Harris, coordinator at Cats Protection Coventry, said it was thanks to &#8216;the power of the microchip&#8217; that Toby had been returned home and was no longer scavenging for food.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/28\/16\/78331243-12800601-image-a-41_1701189171558.jpg\" height=\"793\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Toby back at home &#8211; to the delight of his owners, but less so for new household pet Bernie<\/p>\n<p>Madison Rogers, Cats Protection&#8217;s head of advocacy, told CoventryLive:\u00a0&#8216;It is always wonderful to hear stories like Toby&#8217;s where a cat and owner have been reunited thanks to their microchip after so many years apart.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We cannot know what happened to Toby in the years before he was scanned but we encourage anybody who finds a cat who they believe to be lost or stray to take them to a vet or animal rescue charity where they can be checked for a microchip.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Although this is a wonderful happy ending for Toby, if only he had been found and scanned when he first disappeared, he could have been back with his family all this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Luckily Toby&#8217;s owner&#8217;s details were up to date and his story is a fantastic example of just how important it is to keep details up to date and how quickly a cat can be returned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He may have been missing for 11 years but because of his microchip he was back home within 24 hours of his owners being contacted.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Toby isn&#8217;t the only cat to be reunited with his owners after a long absence thanks to his microchip.<\/p>\n<p>In Australia, a cat named Mozart\u00a0was found after almost two years on the loose.<\/p>\n<p>And in the summer a Sunderland kitty called Charlie\u00a0wound up 40 miles from home\u00a0&#8211; 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