A STOURBRIDGE moggie which went missing more than a year ago is back home and feline fine after its owner spotted it on Facebook.
When Fluffy the cat went out one day and didn’t come back - owner Karen Walker thought she'd seen the last of her distinctive, long-furred black and white pet.
But thanks to the power of social networking site Facebook - the lucky three-and-a-half-year-old cat has enjoyed a purrfect reunion with Karen, of Foster Place, Wollaston, who spotted a picture of the missing moggie on a friend Hayley Morgan’s wall.
She said: “I always look at the photos Hayley puts on as I know she does work for Cats Protection and we love cats; and that day I just happened to bring a photo up and thought that’s my cat! So I Facebooked Hayley and went up to see her with a picture of Fluffy.
“We’re very happy to have him back.
“He’s a lot less timid than he was and he’s having a lot of fuss.”
Pal Hayley, who is a volunteer fosterer for the Stourbridge branch of Cats Protection, had been looking after the cat for the last few weeks after a family in Oldswinford, who had been feeding him, handed him into the charity.
She said: “It was a twist of fate that I got to foster Fluffy, if it had been any other fosterer his picture wouldn’t have gone on Facebook.
“It’s strange as Karen lives just down the road - and while I was fostering him I’d called him Bandit and apparently Karen used to have a cat called Bandit which lived with Fluffy.”
Fluffy’s happy ending was the first but not the only Facebook success story for Stourbridge’s Cats Protection charity.
A stray cat taken to Dudley Vets 4 Pets, whose address could not be traced due to outdated microchip details, has also been reunited with its owner after a Cats Protection volunteer tracked her down on the social networking site.
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