Lola the cat returns after three years
A MISSING cat presumed dead three years ago has turned up alive and well.
Black and white moggie Lola is now settling back in with her family after they got a shock call.
“We don’t know what to think. We thought she was dead,” said owner Rob Baker.
“We are just staring at her in the house. We don’t know where she has been gallivanting.”
Rob, 31, and his partner Claire Owen, 34, kept Lola inside to stop her wandering when they moved into their new home on Ffordd y Draen at Parc Derwen, Coity, Bridgend, three years ago.
“We kept her in for a few weeks and when she started going outside she would come back and then one day she went missing,” said Rob, a rope access technician who works on wind turbines.
“We put posters up and put it on Facebook and contacted the local vets and the council, as they always scan roadkill to see if they have microchips, but there was nothing at all.
“After a few months we thought perhaps she had got knocked down and we gave up looking for her.
“And when we first moved here lots of cats seemed to be going missing and we thought perhaps they were getting onto the local common and getting chased by a fox or a dog.”
Following the loss of Lola the couple and their daughter Eva, five, adopted two kittens.
Then last Friday Claire had a call from Pets at Home saying they had scanned a cat which was registered to them.
They have been told a woman in Litchard, just a couple of miles away from their house, had been feeding her for three weeks and took her to the store to be scanned just in case she had a microchip.
“When Claire told me, I thought it was an April fool’s joke,” said Rob.
“But when I got home Lola was sitting on her lap. She’s a bit fatter but is fine.
“My daughter is happy as she missed her.
“Lola has settled back in and is like the queen bee again.”