A moggy that went missing seven years ago has been found and reunited with her loving owners – thanks to a kind-hearted public official who paid out of his own pocket to take the pussy cat halfway across the United States.
Ebi had been adopted in 2015 by Joe and Leanna Drnec when they lived in California. But by the time the couple had moved across the country to Knoxville, Tennessee, the beloved animal had gone missing.
That was the end of that, they thought, even though Ebi had been microchipped, reported 6 ABC.
“We really hoped and prayed that she found a good home and that’s kind of what we thought in the back of our minds, she must have found a good home,” said Joe.
“I think that’s what people do just to kind of cope with it.”
But the Drnecs recently received a phone call from a public animal shelter in Jurupa Valley, California, informing them that eight-year-old Ebi had been found, not far from where they’d last seen her.
Riverside County Animal Services chief John Welsh said Ebi had been dropped off at the shelter as a stray, and a scan of her microchip had led them to the Drnecs.
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Remarkably, John himself then took Ebi more than 2,000 miles to Knoxville, staying in Phoenix and Nashville on his way, paying for himself because taxpayers’ money can’t be used on personal pets.
He said: “We like getting animals back to their rightful owners, even if they tend to be half the country away or more than half the country away, so it’s just fun.”
Unfortunately, this reunion proved to be the exception rather than the rule, as John said that fewer than two impounded cats in every 100 are reunited with their owners.
Joe said: “When you see so much bad on the news and in the world, you see something like this; it reminds you of the goodness in humanity and just that there is so much goodness out there still.”
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