A CAT that went missing months ago when it hitched a lift in a builder’s van has turned up 130 miles away. Three-year-old Dexter is thought to have sneaked into the van near its home. After he disappeared in May, his owner Jo Walker, 43, and her family feared the worst when they could not […]
A CAT that went missing months ago when it hitched a lift in a builder’s van has turned up 130 miles away.
Three-year-old Dexter is thought to have sneaked into the van near its home.
After he disappeared in May, his owner Jo Walker, 43, and her family feared the worst when they could not find any trace of Dexter despite an extensive search.
But Jo’s husband Mark, 45, was stunned when he received a call from a vet to say Dexter had been found safe and well near Andover, Hants.
Picking him up meant a six-hour round-trip from their home in Willenhall, West Midlands.
It is thought Dexter climbed into the van, which later stopped at a service station on the M6, and where the cat got out.
He is thought to have stayed there for some time before sneaking into another car.
Its driver found Dexter when he got home and took him to a vet to check for a microchip.
Jo, mum to eight-year-old Ashleigh, said: “He went missing at the beginning of May.
“We posted things around the neighbourhood and on social media and didn’t hear anything until the vet phoned to say his microchip had been traced to us. That was a bit of shock because he was 130 miles away.
“When Ashleigh heard the call to say he had been found she cried for about ten minutes.
“We were a bit bewildered as to how he ended up all the way down there but it was lovely to just know he was OK.
“He looked amazing and is in really good condition. He looks the same old cat.”
