lost cat now back to grumpy old self

This is Henry.

Henry was recently found more than 150 miles away from his home after he had been missing for nine months. Luckily, he had been microchipped, so when he finally ended up at a shelter all it took was a phone call to reunite him with his owner.

But the best thing about this article isn’t Henry’s happy ending, it’s the awesome Britishisms. For example:

“Owner Bridget Wells thought her white-haired pet had had his chips after he did not return home last September.”

Had his chips? Ms. Wells also has a lodger (who has lodgers anymore?) and originally got Henry from a cattery (I love that word.) She also thought he was cat-napped, which doesn’t seem like the most likely occurrence. But the important thing is that Henry is back to his “large, elegant, grumpy self.”

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the return of george aka puka

This is George. More than 13 years after he went missing from his home in Santa Rosa, California, he’s back!

But this isn’t one of those stories where a cat hitches a ride on the underside of a car and makes it all the way across the country (and you’d be surprised how many of those there are). George was just three miles from the home of his owners, Frank Walberg and Melinda Merman, living in a trailer park. Though this article is somewhat fuzzy on the exact details, it appeared George had been living there since eight weeks after he went missing at home of a woman who named him “Puka.”

So what we have learned from George’s escapade is:

1. Keep your cats indoors.
2. If you have to let them out, get them microchipped (that’s how they found out George was really George).
3. It doesn’t matter if you let everyone in your town know that you’re missing a cat from your lovely feline-friendly home. Some lady will still keep him in her trailer and give him a stupid name.

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missing cat found, can now update myspace profile

I feel like I’ve read a ton of stories like this one about cats going missing for several months only to return unharmed, but this one is special because:

1. The cat is from a town called Ladysmith.
2. He’s “loud,” so he was named after Archie Bunker (but there’s no indication that “loud” is a euphemism for racist when it comes to the cat)
3. The sheer MySpace-ness of this photo of the cat and his owner (photo by Danielle Bell):

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mr. butters sighting

Read more about Mr. Butters here.

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phone home, mr. butters

Mr. Butters has been the town mascot of Malone, NY, for the past seven weeks. He has attended local board meetings and endeared himself to local businesses. But now he’s gone missing, and hasn’t been seen for the past week and a half.

Did Mr. Butters get tired of small-town life and hop a plane somewhere? Is he hiding under someone’s porch? Did he make a run for the (Canadian) border? Who knows? If you see him, call 518-483-4740. The people of Malone are waiting.

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