against all odds, she’s back
I got a strange text message today around lunchtime from a pet microchip company. It told me that my pet has been found, and included a phone number for a vet’s office about twenty miles south of my house.
Lady Sif, the kitten we rescued from a storm drain near a friend’s house, disappeared four summers ago. We’d done all the right things: contacting the local animal shelters, getting on the local social media groups, posting signs…all that stuff. But we got nothing; after about six months, we gave up; the small calico cat we’d all loved was gone.
Until today.
While I was spending hours wracking my brain writing a business case for a requirement I barely had any experience with for work, my lovely spouse called the number, and things sounded promising, so she took a drive down to the office, and sure enough, it was her, with a few interesting scars and an allergy exaggerated by a flea infestation.
And now Lady Sif is home.
Four years later, she’s back with us, and for the last few hours, she’s been glued to my side, purring up a storm. Half her life away from us, and it’s like she never got lost; my friend is home.
It’ll be a little weird – I’ve got five cats again, and only one of the other four was here when she disappeared, but they’ll figure it out. Today was, as you might imagine, pretty emotional.
But I’m really glad she’s back. Microchip your pets, folks – it’s worth the effort.
She’s home.
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