Missing cat found 150 miles from home (From Somerset County Gazette)

Missing cat found 150 miles from home

10:27am Wednesday 14th October 2009

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A CAT missing for three weeks has been found in deepest West Somerset – 150 miles from where she lives.

Lottie, a pedigree British Shorthair, disappeared from her south-east London home last month, leaving owners Roberto and Colleen Sodano and their two young children distraught.

The family put up posters along the streets and posted flyers through doors in an attempt to trace their missing pet but Lottie was already outside the city.

Astonishingly, early last week, Lottie turned up in the garden of a cottage April Wyatt shares with her husband and their own two cats at Upton, near Dulverton, and soon made herself at home. It is a mystery how she got there.

“She was obviously very hungry and in need of comfort, so I stroked her and looked at the collar she was wearing,” April said.

“The collar carried Roberto and Colleen’s surname, the first line of their address, the postcode and telephone number.

“I didn’t recognise the code. I phoned and asked ‘have you lost a cat?’ to which the man said ‘yes – three weeks ago’.

“And then I found out he was in south-east London and there I was calling from West Somerset – it really was so weird.”

Robert was equally amazed. “Yes, it was a bizarre call from April,” he said. “She told us they lived in the middle of nowhere so Lottie might well have been out in the countryside, perhaps living on mice, before she appeared in their garden.

“I was becoming resigned to losing her when April called on Friday. Lottie was really lucky that such lovely people found her – I can’t thank them enough.”

Lottie was transported back home in style on Monday – a ‘pet taxi’ run by Exmoor company Animals at Home.

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