<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.fark.com/goto/11334898/www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/cat-missing-more-year-appears-20354076%3Futm_source%3Dfark%26u" target="_blank" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"> A cat that was missing for more than a year has been found - just a 15-minute drive away from where his owner lives. Welcome to a happy reunion on Caturday</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">.</span><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr">Courtesy of <i>Wales On Line </i>at:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/cat-missing-more-year-appears-20354076?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark">https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/cat-missing-more-year-appears-20354076?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark</a></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">————————————————</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 22px; letter-spacing: -0.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20); color: rgb(20, 20, 20); font-family: "Signika Negative Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 50px; letter-spacing: -1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cat missing for more than a year appears just a 15-minute drive away from owner's home</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 22px; letter-spacing: -0.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">A cat that was missing for more than a year has been found - just a 15-minute drive away from where his owner lives.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">Morty the cat appeared in a Porthcawl garden on Thursday, April 8 after being missing since the start of the first lockdown in March last year. He was found just over six miles from home.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">The cat’s owner, Paula Evans, 39, said she was “devastated” when he first went missing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">Although Morty was neutered, he hadn’t yet been microchipped, and had been booked in to do so for the day after he went missing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">“I could have kicked myself,” Ms Evans said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">“My cats only went in the back garden. They never, ever wandered that far.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">When Morty didn’t respond after Ms Evans called him for food, she put a post on Pets Lost and Found, a Facebook group of which she is an admin.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">“I know the protocol of leaving litter boxes out, making people aware, so I was just constantly sharing posts, walking the streets, looking in gardens - everything a pet owner would do.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">Ms Evans was beginning to give up hope when, on Wednesday, another admin member posted a picture of a cat that Ms Evans recognised as being Morty.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">On Thursday morning, Ms Evans went to Porthcawl to put up more posters of the missing cat to make residents aware that Morty had been seen in the area.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">However, as she and her partner were about to leave, Ms Evans spotted something that her partner thought was a shadow - but it turned out to be Morty himself.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">“I saw his face and I couldn’t get out of the car quick enough,” she said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">“It was my cat - he was just sitting in someone’s garden!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">“It took him a few minutes to click who I was - he gave me a little bit of a cry and came straight to me.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">Ms Evans’s son, Kaiden, 13, was with her at the time Morty was found.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">“He was his cat. I thought my son was going to pass out, he was so overwhelmed with it. He just froze, it was so lovely.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">Ms Evans said she was overwhelmed and was “shaking from head to toe” when they put Morty in his cat carrier.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">She says she and her family hand-raised Morty, now nearly two-years-old, from when he was just 48 hours old.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);"><iframe class="converse-re cre-center" width="100%" height="0" frameborder="0" src="https://get-latest.convrse.media/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walesonline.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal-news%2Fcat-missing-more-year-appears-20354076%3Futm_source%3Dfark%26utm_medium%3Dwebsite%26utm_content%3Dlink%26ICID%3Dref_fark&cre=center&cip=27&view=web" scrolling="no" style="outline: 0px; min-width: 100%; border-width: 0px; float: left; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;"></iframe>“The bond that we had with Morty was more than you’d have with a normal kitten from eight-weeks-old.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">“He was more than a cat to us. He was a family member.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">Ms Evans said she had a huge amount of support from the team behind Pets Lost and Found, and that she “wouldn’t have been able to do it without them.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">“I would also like to give a huge thank you to my friend Jayne Richards. She was my biggest support system when Morty went missing and was there yesterday when we found him in Porthcawl,” she added.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">After being missing for over a year, Morty has some irritation resulting from fur loss, but has been wormed and had flea treatment He is booked in for an appointment with a vet and will be microchipped.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">“He’s definitely on house arrest! It hasn’t sunk in entirely that he’s home.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">“This morning, I went into my son’s room because he spent the night curled up with him and I was like, ‘Yep, he’s still here.’”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">Ms Evans said that Morty recognised their older cat, Sky, when he got home and went straight to give her a kiss on the nose.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">She says she wants to reassure other cat owners to not give up hope when their pets go missing.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 22px; letter-spacing: -0.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 22px; letter-spacing: -0.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">—————————</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Photos . . .</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="caret-color: rgb(44, 44, 44); color: rgb(44, 44, 44); font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -0.07000000029802322px; text-indent: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Morty the cat reunited with owner Paula Evans</span></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Caturday/Caturday_041721_01.jpg">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Caturday/Caturday_041721_01.jpg</a></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="caret-color: rgb(44, 44, 44); color: rgb(44, 44, 44); font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -0.07000000029802322px; text-indent: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The street in Porthcawl where Morty was found</span></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Caturday/Caturday_041721_02.jpg">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Caturday/Caturday_041721_02.jpg</a></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">————————————————-</span></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><b>“Caturday”</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> by Linus Petit</span></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Caturday/Caturday_by_Linus_Petit.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Caturday/Caturday_by_Linus_Petit.mp3</a></div></div><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/">http://www.moscowcares.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. Stolworthy</div></div></div></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>