Allsort the Cat is Back in Amy’s Arms Six Years Later
In the UK this week, Amy Turnbull was reunited with her cherished cat, Allsort — after six years.
When Allsort disappeared in 2003, she was devastated, certain she would never see him again.
Despite posting “missing cat’” flyers everywhere and conducting an extensive search, there was no sign of the black cat.
Imagine her amazement this week when she opened a letter from a local vet, telling her that Allsort had found. Not only that, but he’d been living just five streets away.
Amy said, “It was one of the worst days of my life when I realized Allsort had gone. I was absolutely beside myself, it was horrific.
“I had given up all hope of ever finding him, it was terrible. I never thought in a million years I’d have him back.”
Allsort, who was only a year old when he disappeared, was taken in by an elderly couple who thought he was a stray. They made a fuss over him, but later he moved on to different owners. When the new owners they took him to the vet, an ID chip was discovered. Scanning it, the vet discovered that Amy was Allsort’s owner.
She added: “I had seriously thought he was gone forever and that he was dead.”
Although this story has a happy ending and demonstrates the value of microchipping your cat, it also demonstrates the value of keeping an ID tag on your pets. If Allsort had worn a tag, the elderly couple who initially found him would not have assumed he was a stray, and he could have been reunited quickly with Amy, sparing her six years of grief.
[LINK: TheSun.co.uk]
Yay for Allsort gettin bak home!
So happy Allsort is back where he belong’s !
Wow what an amazing story!! I’m so happy Allsort found his way home.
Another suggestion is if you ever have a cat hanging around that you think could be lost or a stray, take him to your local vets to be scanned for a microchip, they will do this for free.
We wear collars but collars can come off.
A collar must always have some sort of safety feature that means if it gets hooked on something, it will breakaway or be able to stretch over the cats head. ID tags are a must but we don’t go for bells. Mum and dad always used to put noisy bells on my collar to prevent me from catching birds as they are big bird lovers too. It doesn’t work and compromises the cats safety if they are ever trying to evade a predator that has bad intentions.
Reading Allsort’s story and the related Cat’s Meow stories tells us microchipping is a must for cats that are allowed to go outside.
Ohhhh that happened at our house about 20 something years ago, a cat came meandering by and never left..
found out she lived down the street years later.
The previous owners didnt care and let her stay – we loved her and she was the sweetest cat ever.
She died peacefully in my room at a ripe old age of ?
I would guess she was in the teens.
We named her Neighbor cause she visited all the neigborhoods houses looking for handouts until she was mine. <3 Rest in peace my dear sweet one.
You are sadly missed.
Thank the Lord Allsort is back home safe and sound, that just goes to show you how good the Lord is to us.