The Mouly’s did not think this family reunion would ever happen.
December 4, 2011 – a date the family is not likely to forget.
Their one-year-old cat, Whiskers, wandered off in the middle of winter from their Pilot Bute home.
“I thought we would never see him again. We felt he probably got taken down by wildlife, coyotes or something,” said Sean Mouly
They thought that was the end of Whiskers.
The Mouly’s adopted another cat and a dog.
Years later, someone brought in a stray cat to the Regina Humane Society, identified only by the worn out tattoo in his ear.
But the Mouly’s had moved, twice, and there was no record of their new address.
With some detective work from the Humane Society, Whiskers was reunited with his long, lost family.
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The Humane Society worker takes Whisker to meet his old family again.
“Ready to home bud,” she says to the cat.
“Do you want to see him? It’s been a while, hey?” she says to the kids as they pet Whiskers for the first time in six years.
It’s been six years since Whiskers wandered off, without a clue of where he was, what he did, how he survived.
If this cat could talk, what tales would he tell?
Sean Mouly has no idea.
“I mean, if you think where have you been in the last six years, where has anybody been? And cats, they can go anywhere. What they see, who knows?”
Whiskers is one of 4,500 strays the Regina Humane Society received this year.
He is also one of the lucky 550 reunited with his owners.
The Humane Society said it was the tattoo on his ear that helped bring Whiskers home.
“Things like collars fall off, and licenses will fall off. When they have a tattoo and microchip, they’ll have that all their life,” said Don Simons from the Humane Society.
Whiskers is 8-years-old now. He’s bigger now, but still just as shy.
“Even thought he’s been gone for six years, he is still ours,” said Mouly.
It’s a new house, but an old family that welcomes Whisker back home.
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