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- SirChaos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Weird, it did not ask me for a login: use these links for the story:
http://www.kcra.com/family/9158175/detail.html
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/269023_cat04ww.html
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_450394.html - armbo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1bugmenot worked for me. here's the text:
Sneakers has a story to tell.
But unfortunately, there are secrets the 11-year-old feline is going to keep to himself.
Like why he disappeared from his yard in Seattle and showed up in a Sacramento animal shelter - 10 years later.
By all accounts, Sneakers happily spent his kitten year with a Seattle family.
Then, after he turned a year old, he disappeared from his yard, leaving only his collar behind.
His 5-year-old mistress, Hilary Keyes, was brokenhearted.
She and her mother combed the neighborhood, posted his picture and pined for his return.
"I was devastated when he went missing," said Keyes, now 14.
After a while, the adults in her life told her that Sneakers wasn't coming back.
She still thought about the ebony-colored ball of fur who used to curl up on her lap and purr contentedly. Even after she and her mother moved to another house, even after she got three other cats.
On Saturday, Keyes' mother got the call: Sneakers was alive and well - and in California. "I said, 'Are you joking?'" Keyes said Wednesday by telephone.
He was at Sacramento's Animal Care Services, where he had been dropped off. A microchip implanted under his skin contained information that led back to his Seattle family.
A family that had once lived in Washington dropped Sneakers off at the Sacramento shelter, said Rhea Serran, a spokeswoman for the animal shelter.
He went through a routine scan to see if he was carrying an identifying chip.
The family who left had owned him for about eight years, Serran said, but were unaware of the chip.
They said they could no longer keep him - well, her, they said. Sneakers' new family mistakenly thought the cat was a female and called it Keesha.
They had inherited the cat from another family in Washington who had taken him in as a stray.
On Wednesday, Sneakers-Keesha lounged in the back of his cage at the Front Street shelter, his green eyes blinking with a touch of disdain.
His excellent adventure isn't over yet: He'll board a plane for Seattle on Saturday, leaving the Golden State behind.
"I don't know if he remembers us or not," Keyes said. "But he's our cat, so he's coming home." - xmuskrat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Login Required? Urgh.
Not interested anymore. - RichyFreeway, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Site requires a login. No digg.
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