This story isn’t based in Atlanta, but it should give hope to lost-cat owners everywhere. Thanks to a microchip, a cat in Massachusetts has been reunited with its owner after going missing for almost a year. From the Boston Globe:
The sleek coal-black feline scampered to freedom — and the unknown — from his Lexington home last spring while his owners were visiting friends in Boston. After Sparky fled, Addie Mathews, 19, posted flyers and scoured the neighborhood for the then 7-month-old kitten.
”There was no sign of him,” she said. ”I was just really hoping that someone had taken him in, because he’s a really friendly cat.”
Several weeks ago, a black cat was discovered in a bank-owned Boston property. The owner had been foreclosed on, and the animal had been left behind. Sparky was brought to the MSPCA in Jamaica Plain on Feb. 28.
When an adoption center counselor scanned the cat, a microchip was found– and to Mathews’ surprise, she was reunited with Sparky that day.