LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – It was a reunion unlikely for a Las Vegas family and their pet cat after the four-legged feline went missing not months but years ago.
Cat found 50 miles away, reunites with Las Vegas family after 2 years apart
Lucipurr a 10-year-old cat waited a long two years to get back home. On Sunday he was finally reunited with his owner, Katelyn Mendes.
One morning around mid-March Mendes said she let Lucipurr out to use the restroom and did not return.
“Hearing cats roam and spending weeks or months just looking and hoping he’d come back,” she recalled.
After posting pictures on social media and flyers around the neighborhood, Mendes and her husband were shocked to finally get the call they had been waiting for all along. They told 8 News Now they were surprised about where he was found, which was inside a wall.
“A few stray cats were living inside of a wall in an alley, so she coaxed him out with food and was able to get him closer enough to catch him and bring him in,” Mendes told 8 News Now. “The rescuer lives six miles away, so just knowing he crossed six miles to be found again.”