Ozzie the cat Photo: Cat Protection
An animal welfare organisation is seeking the owners of a 25-year-old cat that apparently made an incredible journey from Australia to Northern Ireland.
The ginger cat was found by Cat Protection in County Armagh last week. He was taken to a vet, who found that he had been fitted with a microchip in Australia.
Cat Protection
The data showed that the apparent stowaway had also been registered as a stray in London – and that he was born in 1989 making him 25 years old. The average life expectancy for cats is up to 15 years.
His name according to the microchip is Tigger, but the Cat Protection workers have renamed him Ozzie.
“Ozzie has a microchip which shows he came from Australia but owners never registered their details,” a post on the Armagh Cats Protection Facebook page revealed.
“He turned up as a stray at a London vet clinic in 2004. Now he is with us after he was found in Laurelvale!!”
Cat Protection now hopes to find the original owner.
“We are desperate to unravel the rest of this cat's past and hopefully reunite him with his owners,” Gillian McMullen, Cat Protection coordinator, told to the Belfast Telegraph.
"We have been in touch with the Australian Animal Register and have our fingers and paws crossed on word from them on this cat."
The data showed that the apparent stowaway had also been registered as a stray in London – and that he was born in 1989 making him 25 years old. The average life expectancy for cats is up to 15 years.
His name according to the microchip is Tigger, but the Cat Protection workers have renamed him Ozzie.
“Ozzie has a microchip which shows he came from Australia but owners never registered their details,” a post on the Armagh Cats Protection Facebook page revealed.
“He turned up as a stray at a London vet clinic in 2004. Now he is with us after he was found in Laurelvale!!”
Cat Protection now hopes to find the original owner.
“We are desperate to unravel the rest of this cat's past and hopefully reunite him with his owners,” Gillian McMullen, Cat Protection coordinator, told to the Belfast Telegraph.
"We have been in touch with the Australian Animal Register and have our fingers and paws crossed on word from them on this cat."
The Telegraph
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