Sooty heads straight for the pub after 18 months missing

People all over the UK may well be suffering with the winter blues this month but for one lucky pub landlord February has been particularly cheerful after he was reunited with his missing tabby cat, Sooty.

Sean Sanders from Banbury has been reunited with Sooty after 18 months apart. Sooty went missing after wandering off one night back in August 2006. Luckily for Sooty, Sean had microchipped his beloved pet with a Bayer microchip and registered him with Petlog, the UK's largest reunification database, which is owned and run by the Kennel Club.

Sean explained, "We were really concerned when Sooty didn't return home. At first we assumed he had gone off for a couple of days and would return when he was good and ready, but after a week or so we realised something was wrong.

"We placed posters all around our local area and asked the postman to keep a look out. Eventually we rang Petlog and reported him missing."

No one is quite sure what adventures Sooty got himself caught up in during his time away from home but he eventually turned up over 100 miles away! The Sanders family got a call from a vet late one night to say that he had been found. Fortunately, they had remembered to update their contact details via Petlog Premium when they moved house to Banbury a few weeks after Sooty's disappearance.

Sean continued, "I jumped straight in the car and drove to get him, and sure enough there was Sooty. It is so wonderful to have him back with us now. So much has changed for him - we now have another dog and cat and our son, who was only a few months old when Sooty went missing, is now walking! We are so pleased to have him back and know it is all down to Petlog. I have always known having your pet microchipped is important but I didn't realise it would make such a difference with my own pet."

Sadly, thousands of pets go missing every year and many are not reunited with their owners as they do not have any form of identification. Sooty's remarkable and emotional story is just one of the many success stories where pets have been reunited because their owners have taken responsibility for their pet's safety and welfare by having a microchip painlessly inserted under the pet's skin.

Caroline Kisko, Kennel Club spokesperson commented "We understand just how devastating it can be for an owner to lose a pet. Petlog is dedicated to encouraging owners to properly identify their pets, whether it's a dog, cat, rabbit, tortoise or even a horse, so that, when found, they can be reunited as quickly as possible."

For more information about Petlog please visit www.petlog.org.uk.

To submit your own re-unification story, please e-mail us at petlogadmin@thekennelclub.org.uk

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