A MELKSHAM charity and a couple in Shaw helped return a lost cat to its owners after being missing for seven weeks, to find it had travelled nearly 30 miles from Swindon.
Monty the cat was found in a couple’s garden in Shaw looking tired and hungry last month. When he was taken to a vet it turned out he had made his way there from a family in Swindon after going missing last year.
With the help of Melksham’s branch of Cats Action Trust and Beeches Vets, Monty was reunited with his family in February.
Karine and Tim Watts, of Melksham’s Cats Action Trust, collected Monty from the couple who found him and looked after him for a few days.
Karine said, “We fed him to build him up and spent time with him providing him with care and affection. We took him to Beeches vets for a thorough check-up and they scanned the cat for a microchip. His owners were traced, Kerry Shave, from Purton, near Swindon, and her three children whose ginger and white cat ‘Monty’ had gone missing seven weeks ago. We left Monty at the vets’ practice where he was reunited with his owners the next day.”
Monty’s owner Kerry said, “Monty had been missing for seven weeks and we are so pleased to have him home. We live 27 miles away, so how he got to Melksham is a mystery!
“Our children are thrilled to have him home. We had been searching for weeks and the children were so upset as Monty is the family pet.
“He has lost a lot of weight and is still eating like mad but he seems happy to be home and hasn’t stopped meowing, probably trying to tell us where he has been all this time; on quite an adventure it would appear!”
To find out more about Cats Action Trust visit the shop on Bath Road in Melksham or go to www.catsactiontrust.org.uk or visit the Facebook page.
