Three-legged cat back safe after big adventure

A THREE-LEGGED cat has been found after doing a runner from her home – 45 miles away.

Tracy Lake said she feared the worst after 11-year-old Brandy, who had a leg amputated when she was two, suddenly went missing six weeks ago.

But she was overjoyed when her precious tabby, who had been a house cat for the last three years, turned up in Liverpool.

The mother-of-three, from Nicholson Avenue in Hurdsfield, said: “We couldn’t find her anywhere in the house one day and realised she must have sneaked out, unbeknown to any of us.

“It was so worrying. My daughter Leanne put something on Facebook appealing for people to help us find Brandy, but we had no luck.

“I was sure we would never see her again. Then I picked up a voicemail from the RSPCA saying they’d found my cat – and that she was in Liverpool. I couldn’t believe it.”

Brandy was found by a member of the public in an industrial estate next to Liverpool airport with numerous scratches on her body. She was also underweight.

Tracy, who works as a community carer, said: “I didn’t believe at first that she had been found alive 45 miles away. I was absolutely ecstatic though and we went to meet her at a vets. She was in such a sorry mess but was so happy to see us and we were over the moon. It just goes to show how important microchipping is, because if it wasn’t for Brandy’s microchip, we would never have been reunited with her.

“She has had quite an adventure. We can only assume she jumped in a van and travelled all the way to Liverpool.”

Brandy’s adventure was not her first though. She once jumped on a bus in Bollington with Tracy’s daughter Sian and ended up at Tytherington School.

RSPCA animal collection officer Derek Hampson said: “It was fantastic to be able to reunite Brandy with her worried family and this was only possible because of her microchip.”