HONOLULU (AP) — When a family moved from Hawaii to Detroit more than a year ago, they thought they had lost their cat forever.
Bogie, a Siamese cat, was supposed to move with the family, but he escaped his kennel on a United Cargo flight, nonprofit Hawaii CatFriends told KHON-TV.
Bogie was missing for 19 months before he was reconnected with the family in Michigan.
Hawaii resident Bill Antilla feeds a colony of stray cats near the Honolulu airport three nights a week. He is a volunteer for CatFriends, a nonprofit that spays and neuters feral cats on Oahu.
Bogie was friendlier than most feral cats and caught Antilla’s eye because he looked like a purebred Siamese — unusual among the local feral cats.
He discovered that the cat was microchipped and the Hawaiian Humane Society was able to trace it back to the family in Detroit.
Antilla said this is an example of why pets should be microchipped.
CatFriends shipped Bogie on United Cargo recently and he was reunited with the family in Detroit on Friday morning.
“They’re so excited to have him back,” CatFriends President Jennifer Kishimori said.
- Posted June 22, 2016
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