CAT’S FIVE-YEAR ADVENTURE

A LONG-LOST cat has been reunited with its owner after an astonishing five years.

And he was only found after turning up on a North Sea oil rig in a shipping container, the Scottish Society for Protection of Cruelty to Animals said.

The one-eyed black cat was found in a shipping container at an oil rig off Peterhead, in northeast Scotland.

“We’ve no idea how the cat ended up there, but attended the heliport this morning to collect him,” said rescue officer Aimee Findlay.

It emerged the cat had spent five years living as a stray around Peterhead, where he was known as “One-eyed Joe”.

When a vet checked him for a chip, it turned out that the seemingly stray cat’s “real name is Dexter and he has been missing for five years!”. The SPCA returned him to a thankful owner.