Winnipeg family’s reunion with missing cat 2 years later a Thanksgiving miracle – Winnipeg

It’s a Thanksgiving miracle.

A Winnipeg household has been reunited with a furry good friend — virtually two years to the day after she went lacking.

Dana Curtaz instructed World Information her cat Maggie, solely a yr previous on the time, disappeared in October of 2019 after the loss of life of her greatest good friend, a black lab named Annie, who had most cancers.

“Maggie and Annie had been greatest buddies, so when Annie was put down, Maggie was out of types,” stated Curtaz.

“There was at some point, a number of days after Annie handed away, that we opened the again door and (Maggie) took off, and she or he simply by no means got here again. We thought, ‘possibly she’s on the lookout for Annie.’

“My husband went on the lookout for her within the neighbourhood, asking individuals in the event that they’d seen her, I made flyers, we put them in individuals’s mailboxes, posted footage far and wide and we simply by no means knew what occurred to her.”

Curtaz stated after some time, they gave up hope that Maggie — who had been an indoor cat her total life and didn’t have expertise on the road — would ever be seen once more.

To fill the void left by Annie’s loss of life and Maggie’s disappearance, Curtaz stated one other cat, one other canine, and, only recently, a brand new pet had joined the household — after which she heard the information Sunday night time.

“On Sunday, after the household left, simply after Thanksgiving dinner, I get a message from Lacking Cat Alert saying, ‘your cat’s been discovered, and this woman has your cat who has been lacking for 2 years,’” she stated.

“I known as her, and she or he stated she had been feeding Maggie since July, and she or he lastly — after three months — gained sufficient of her belief that she was capable of look in her ear on the tattoo.”

The quantity on Maggie’s tattoo led again to Curtaz and to their surprising reunion, though it took the cat a short time to get again to her previous habits.

“She’s a really skittish cat, so I believe she wasn’t certain at first,” she stated.

“We set her up in our spare bed room at first … and my husband and I took turns going into the bed room spending time along with her to attempt to get her used to us. She truly slept with me final night time in my bed room, and I believe she now is aware of who we’re.

“I’m going to take her to the vet on Friday, get her checked over, she’s going to have to be dewormed and she or he’s undoubtedly going to want her claws trimmed, as a result of they’re dangerously sharp — particularly if we’re going to attempt to combine her with the opposite pets in the home.”

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By some means, throughout her two years within the wild, Maggie discovered her means all the way in which throughout town — in St. James, after beginning out in Transcona — a journey Curtaz, or anybody, won’t ever know the total particulars of.

For now, although, she’s simply pleased Maggie’s again the place she belongs.

“It haunted me for the longest time,” she stated.

“I felt responsible that I had let her get out, and I all the time puzzled no matter grew to become of her. She’d been gone longer than she was alive — she was one yr previous when she disappeared, and now she’s three.”

Curtaz stated Maggie is “actually calm” now that she’s house, and she or he’s already made mates with one among her new housemates — a golden retriever — and is engaged on getting launched to the opposite four-legged residents.