A woman who lost her cat over a decade ago, has been miraculously reunited with her furry family member.
When Sam Sam the Kittycat Man disappeared 11 years ago, Jennifer Ravenel couldn’t think of holding another cat in her lap. She felt she could not overcome the loss of her beloved feral kitten that she had rescued from the crook of a tree on her South Carolina farm.
But now, Sam is back in Ravenel’s lap, thanks to her decision to have a microchip put in him.
Charleston County Animal Control found Sam this month. He was skinny and feeding off scraps from a feral colony less than a mile from Ravenel’s home. When his microchip was scanned, and Ravenel got the phone call.
“I really thought y’all were playing a prank on me, because it couldn’t be possible. But this is a miracle in itself,” Ravenel told workers at the Charleston Animal Society.
Ravenel was guided to a room where Sam was in a cage. She got emotional as soon as she saw him.
“Sam Sam the Kittycat Man! I’m missed you so much! 11 years!” she said.
Once Sam was OK, Ravenel was able to hold kitty on her again.
“I haven’t held a cat since he left — 11 years — because it broke my heart. To feel his little heartbeat in there, oh, gosh, it’s the craziest thing that has ever happened to me,” Ravenel said in a video provided by the Animal Society.
Sam weighed about 15 pounds (6.8 kilograms) when he went missing and half that when he was found, said Kay Hyman, a spokesperson for the Animal Society.
Ravenel initially found Sam in a feral colony after she heard quiet meows from a crook in a tree. He sat comfortably in her lap and followed her around the farm.
But one day a dog came and scared Sam off, and she couldn’t find him.
“I searched and searched the woods. I asked everybody that lived around us, and nobody saw him. But he’s a survivor,” Ravenel told society workers as she petted her now-old friend.
The reunion was made possible with the microchip implanted just under Sam’s skin. The Animal Society said it shows that doing so and having that kind of permanent identification for pets is effective.
Ravenel told the shelter that Sam is spending most of his time at the foot of her bed and does not want to go back outside.
Source: NY POST and Good Morning America