A Globetrotting Cat
A globetrotting cat managed to make its (23)_____ from Australia to Northern Ireland after a stop-off in London - almost 11,000 miles away.
The 25-year-old ginger cat, named Ozzie by his rescuers, was found wandering the streets of Laurelvale, near County Armagh, last week and (24)_____ to the local Cats Protection centre. The staff at the clinic scanned his microchip and were stunned to find the poor feline was registered in Sydney in 2000 as “Tigger”.
Volunteers launched an international campaign on social media to uncover how the tomcat ended up on the other side of the world — and the post has been (25)_____ more than 18,000 times. The Cats Protection Centre says it is likely that Ozzie was brought to London by its owner, before he (26)_____ then crossed the Irish Sea to Northern Ireland some 450 miles away.
Cats Protection co-ordinator, Gilian McMullen, said: “I responded to a call from a member of the public who was (27)_____ about a poorly stray cat that had been hanging around her garden for several days. The poor cat was in a starving (28)_____ but obviously had been cared for in the past because it was (29)_____ a collar. In Willow Veterinary Clinic we discovered it was microchipped and this is where the mystery begins. The cat had (30)_____ been microchipped in Australia. In 2004 he (31)_____ as a stray in a vet clinic in London, but no owners could be traced.”
Ozzie was also found to have been born in 1989, making him 25 — 10 years older than the age of the average cat. Ms McMullen added: “If only he could (32)_____ us about his life and how he got here.”
