<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of 10 News (San Diego, California) at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://www.10news.com/news/family-reunited-with-pet-cat-that-has-been-missing-for-13-years-040513">http://www.10news.com/news/family-reunited-with-pet-cat-that-has-been-missing-for-13-years-040513</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">-------------------------------------</div><div><p></p><div id="storyTitle" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); font-family: Times; "><h1 class="fontStyle51">Family reunited with pet cat that has been missing for 13 years</h1></div><div id="subTitle" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); font-family: Times; "><h2 class="fontStyle52">'Bandit' the cat was found in Las Vegas</h2></div><p></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">SAN DIEGO - A cat that has been missing for more than 13 years was reunited with his family in Linda Vista this week.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Bandit” was found more than 300 miles away in Las Vegas.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Family members say there are still stunned and in disbelief now that Bandit is home in Mission Heights,<br>a community in Linda Vista</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We thought he was long gone 13 years ago,” says Elizabeth Corso, Bandit’s owner.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thirteen years ago, when Bandit was just 2 years old, the Corsos thought Bandit may have escaped or left with a television repair man.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They were devastated.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We would go to shelters, we would go to the pound, we would go everywhere and look for him,” said Corso.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Not only were the Corsos sad, so too was Bandit's brother Coot.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Corsos say the two cats had been inseparable.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“He was just devastated and he's always been a loner ever since,” says Elizabeth's son Christian about Coot. “Never got close to any other cat, he was always looking for his brother the whole time.”</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><but a="" call="" came="" corsos="" get="" p="" phone="" still="" t="" the="" tuesday=""></but></span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“They said, ‘Hello, do you know Bandit?’" says Dante Corso. "I said, ‘Bandit? Who is this?'"</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Corsos had lived in Las Vegas for 19 years and just recently moved back to San Diego.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bandit was found by a man who tries to find feral cats good homes.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One swipe over Bandit's microchip at the Bonanza Cat Hospital in Las Vegas led the vets right to the Corsos in San Diego.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“She said how did you get to San Diego?,” says Dante. “I said, ‘How did you get the cat?'"</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They drove the 300-plus miles to Las Vegas Wednesday and saw their beloved cat once again.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I put my hands out to him and he came over and then put my face toward him and he came up and he just rubbed his face all over mine,” says Elizabeth. “It just kind of broke your heart a little bit.”</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On Thursday afternoon, the Corsos tell 10News they know Bandit has been cared for all these years but they can't help think about where else he's been.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“You just wonder what he's been through," says Elizabeth.</span></p><div><p id="copyrightStoryModule" class="fontStyle10"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Copyright 2013 Scripps Media, Inc. 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