Woman reunited with long lost cat that went missing 17 years ago

Kim Collier was surprised to obtain an ‘out of a blue’ name from the SSPCA about lacking Tilly (Image: Mirrorpix)

Kim Collier by no means forgot her lacking cat, Tilly.

She desperately put up posters and looked for her lacking pet, who vanished in 2004 after shifting from England to Midlothian, Scotland.

Regardless of there being no signal of Tilly, Kim nonetheless diligently up to date the cat’s microchip particulars with two subsequent home strikes within the following 17 years.

However a shock name this week modified every part.

Kim, a vet nurse, was contacted by the SSPCA ‘out of the blue’ asking if she had a cat known as Tilly.

‘I used to be considering “I did however ages in the past”. The officer mentioned she had her at the back of the van and I used to be like “what?”, she instructed the Each day File.

‘It was a really odd feeling, I didn’t actually know if I used to be coming or going. My world was turned the wrong way up…however in a great way.’

Tilly, who turns 20 this 12 months, is receiving palliative care at a vets (Image: Mirrorpix)

Miraculously, Tilly had been present in the identical space she had went lacking from 17 years in the past.

The SSPCA had been contacted by a involved member of the general public who had noticed the cat, who was in pressing want of medical care.

Tilly, who will flip 20 this 12 months, is affected by a bladder tumour and is ‘reaching the top of her life.’

The girl who discovered her, who has simply moved to the realm, mentioned she was coated in matt and was ‘pores and skin and bone’.

Kim Collier has lastly been reunited with Tilly after 17 years aside (Image: Mirrorpix)

Tilly is receiving palliative care on the Pentland Veterinary Clinic. As soon as she regains some power, Kim hopes to convey her residence to allow them to spend the cat’s remaining days collectively.

Kim mentioned: ‘I’m not going to surrender on her. All of the workers right here [at the clinic] are so good and have taken her underneath their wing.

‘She’s obtained jumpers to maintain her heat and will get to come back within the workplace, she’s very spoiled.

‘The primary factor is she is protected and the vets listed below are giving her superb care. We all know the end result will not be nice however I simply wish to make her snug.’

Kim has urged others who've lacking pets to replace their microchip particulars and for everybody to be looking out for doubtlessly misplaced animals.

Kim and Tilly’s 17-year-reunion is just like the story of Colin Clayton and his spouse, Eva Bellamy. The couple misplaced their cat Huge Ginge from aboard a canal boat in 2011.

It wasn’t till 10 years later that a name from Cats Safety Lichfield and Tamworth revealed their cat had been discovered.

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