When a pet goes missing, it can be hard to keep up hope that one day they’ll find their way home. For six years, one woman didn’t give up as she was finally reunited with her cat after so long.
A stray cat was brought to the Sacramento SPCA facility where the staff scanned the feline for a microchip. To their surprise, the information identified that the cat’s name was Lily and that she belonged to Jessica Kinsey of West Sacramento.
Kinsey received a call from the facility notifying her that Lily was at the shelter. She was shocked to hear about the pet since the cat had been missing for almost six years. “Everyone is in total disbelief that she made it home,” Kinsey said.
The woman was only 16 when she adopted Lily as a kitten. For the most part, Lily was an indoor/outdoor cat until she failed to return home one day. “She would come and go for a couple days and always come back and then she didn’t,” Kinsey said.
Kinsey never gave up and made sure to keep the now-13-year-old cat’s microchip information updated in the hopes that she would eventually be found.
The Sacramento SPCA shared the reunion on its Facebook page. “It doesn’t happen often enough so we are really encouraging everyone to microchip, microchip, microchip, it’s how we make those reunifications happen and we love it when it does,” Jamie Larson, the director of animal services at the Sacramento SPCA, said.