Lost cat returned home after nine years

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LONDON (Reuters) - A couple have been reunited with their missing cat after nine years, the RSPCA said on Wednesday.

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Dixie, a 15-year-old ginger cat, disappeared in 1999 and her owners thought she had been killed by a car.

She was found less than half a mile from her home in Birmingham after a concerned resident rang the animal charity to report a thin and dishevelled cat who had been in the area for a couple of months.

RSPCA Animal Collection Officer Alan Pittaway checked her microchip and confirmed it was Dixie. She was returned to her owners, Alan and Gilly Delaney, within half an hour.

"In 29 years of working for the RSPCA I have never seen anyone so excited and happy as Mrs Delaney," Pittaway said. "It made my day to return Dixie to her owners."

The couple were "overjoyed" to be reunited with their missing cat after so many years.

"Dixie's personality, behaviour and little mannerisms have not changed at all," said Gilly Delaney. "We don't think she has stopped purring since she came back through the door."

The RSPCA hope the story will encourage owners to have their pets microchipped.

(Reporting by Anna Legge; Editing by Steve Addison)
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Awww, that's wonderful!

We're hoping for our Maine Coone cat to come back, been missing 5 years. Been with us 7.5 years and then he disappeared ... possibly 'cat'napped, who knows.
 
that's similar story, isn't it? Two or three time it been told the same in different location. Hmm...
 
They are lucky to have the cat back after 9 years of dissappearance.
 
Sound like my cat, he's living with my parents. He has like 4 families, and they all come over to visit my cat. Jeez, that freeloader pimp, I miss his furious attacks on me and how he always sneak up on me to attack me.

Yea, we had a weird relationship.
 
Wow.. Wish my missing cat will return to me? :dunno2: :aw:
 
Wow, that is a long time and sounds like he's been outside all this time if he was thin and dirty. Poor cat! :(
 
Wow, that is awesome story a very happy ending for the owners of the cat.
 
Wow after 9 years, cat still remmy the owners. Awesome!
 
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