<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><div><div></div><div>Courtesy of the Fraser Coast Chronicle (Maryborough, Australia) at:</div><div><br></div><a href="http://www.frasercoastchronicle.com.au/story/2012/01/20/lost-cat-returns-after-4-years-anna-stevenson/"></a><a href="http://www.frasercoastchronicle.com.au/story/2012/01/20/lost-cat-returns-after-4-years-anna-stevenson/"><a href="http://www.frasercoastchronicle.com.au/story/2012/01/20/lost-cat-returns-after-4-years-anna-stevenson/">http://www.frasercoastchronicle.com.au/story/2012/01/20/lost-cat-returns-after-4-years-anna-stevenson/</a></a><div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------</div><div><h2 class="storyHeadline" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 2.4em; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; line-height: 1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Lost cat returns after four years</h2><div><br></div><div>Reunited with Dexter, Anna Stevenson cuddles her cat for the first time in four and a half years.</div><div><br></div><div>Valerie Horton</div><div><br></div><div>GIVEN up for dead for more than four years, Dexter the cat walked back into the life of his owners at Hervey Bay Airport last night.</div><div><br></div><div>Dexter disappeared in Shepparton, Victoria in 2007 and Anna Stevenson and Chris Golden thought they would never see their pet again.</div><div><br></div><div>"He went missing when we were away on holiday," Ms Stevenson said. Posters, advertisements and countless door-knocks later the couple were forced to assume he had met his demise.</div><div><br></div><div>They moved to Hervey Bay with their remaining cat, Entree, and Dexter became a loving memory.</div><div><br></div><div>Over the following years Dexter became something of a legend around the streets of Shepparton, Ms Stevenson said.</div><div><br></div><div>He was notorious for stealing food from the bowls of other cats, fighting with neighbourhood dogs and constant attempts to capture him were in vain.</div><div><br></div><div>Finally, an elderly lady was able to trap him, and the whole street threw a party, Ms Stevenson said.</div><div><br></div><div>The Shepparton animal shelter found his owner was living 1660km and two states away through Dexter's microchip, and Ms Stevenson received a call on Wednesday she thought would never come.</div><div><br></div><div>"I shouted to Chris, 'Dexter's alive' and arranged for him to be flown up as soon as possible," she said</div><div><br></div><div>Yesterday evening, the Qantas Link flight reunited owner and pet and Dexter seemed to recognise Anna immediately.</div><div><br></div><div>As soon as she picked him up, a thin but happy Dexter began purring loudly, still responding to his name after not hearing it for over four years.</div><div><br></div><div>Ms Stevenson thanked the animal shelter in Shepparton as well as the staff of Jetpets and Pets to You for their help in bringing Dexter home.</div><div><br></div><div>Dexter's new life will now see him as an "inside cat".</div><div><br></div><div>---------------</div><div><br></div><div>Reunited with Dexter, Anna Stevenson cuddles her cat for the first time in four and a half years.</div><img src="cid:AD119951-6616-4FB2-8E29-97D518B2E1D4" alt="image.jpeg" id="AD119951-6616-4FB2-8E29-97D518B2E1D4" width="325" height="291"><div><br></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">------------------------------</span><div> </div><div>Seeya later, Moscow.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Post Falls, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"If not us, who?</div><div>If not now, when?"</div><div><br></div><div>- Unknown</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>