{"id":145420,"date":"2018-06-23T15:34:02","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T15:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/lost-cat-reunited-with-owner-after-10-years\/"},"modified":"2018-06-23T15:34:02","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T15:34:02","slug":"lost-cat-reunited-with-owner-after-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/lost-cat-reunited-with-owner-after-10-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost cat reunited with owner after 10 years"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Henry\"Image copyright Mark Salisbury
Image caption The ginger and white kitten was brought in to the Blue Cross in Ipswich last month <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A cat which went missing a decade ago has been reunited with its owner.<\/p>\n

Harry disappeared from Mark Salisbury's former home in Ipswich, Suffolk, in 2008 but last month he turned up at the Ipswich branch of the Blue Cross.<\/p>\n

The charity was told his elderly owner had died but after scanning the cat's microchip Harry was traced back to Mr Salisbury, who now lives in Gloucestershire.<\/p>\n

Mr Salisbury said he "could never quite bring myself to cancel the microchip".<\/p>\n

The ginger and white kitten was one of two Mr Salisbury got from a farm near Great Yarmouth when he was in his early 30s. <\/p>\n

"He didn't turn up one day when I was calling the pair of them in," he said.<\/p>\n

"His brother, who was always a hooligan, his behaviour changed markedly - he was very shy, wasn't keen on going out and became very clingy."<\/p>\n

Image copyright Mark Salisbury
Image caption Harry has now been reunited with Mark Salisbury <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After searching for the lost kitten for more than a year, Mr Salisbury almost gave up hope when he moved out of the area but could never bring himself to cancel the microchip.<\/p>\n

"Every time I moved home I would email the firm and update them," he said.<\/p>\n

"But after 10 years, you think that's it and you make peace with that." <\/p>\n

Mr Salisbury said he was "surprised" and "so happy" to find out his cat had been found in May.<\/p>\n

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    Harry is now living in Gloucester with Mr Salisbury's mother Carolyn Clark, as he thinks reintroducing the cat to his brother after 10 years would be unfair. <\/p>\n

    "Harry the cat adores living with us now," said Ms Clark.<\/p>\n

    "Eventually we will let him go out and - hopefully - come back to us."<\/p>\n

    Susie Winship, from Blue Cross Suffolk, said an owner being reunited with their pet after a 10 year break was "one of the longest" they had seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Image copyright Mark SalisburyImage caption The ginger and white kitten was brought in to the Blue Cross in Ipswich last month A cat which went missing a decade ago has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}