Family celebrates Christmas meow-icle and reminds others to microchip pets

One Mount Pearl family is celebrating a Christmas meow-icle this holiday season.

After going missing two months ago, Micky the cat has been reunited with his owners.

“We got him and he's home for Christmas,” Micky’s owner Kayla Gavin told CBC Radio’s On The Go.

The almost one-year-old cat escaped from his home during a rainstorm on October 22. Gavin said she spent weeks searching in the area near her home.

“We looked everywhere for Micky. We did all the things that you do. You spread the litter. You leave a sock on the trail,” she said.

But Micky never came around.

“We had pretty much given up hope. It was devastating, and we had kind of sort of given into the fact that he's met his destiny, whatever that is,” Gavin said.

Exactly two months after Micky escaped, Gavin’s daughter received a call from the St. John’s SPCA about a cat.

“I get there. I'm so excited. It's Micky. We got him, and he's home for Christmas,” she said, adding the cat looked cared for and well-fed for one that was missing for weeks.

“He is a little fatter than when he left, so he was eating good,” Gavin said.

After taking to social media to connect with the person who helped reunite Micky with his owners, Gavin said it turned out that her cat made his way to Paddy’s Pond and was being cared for by someone living in a cabin over the last couple of weeks.

“She sent me pictures, I'm like, ‘OK, so Micky went on vacation is what I'm seeing,’” Gavin said.

Gavin is also urging people who find pets to get them checked for microchips.

“Please bring them to a shelter so that they can get scanned for a microchip because somebody could be really missing them,” she said.

Micky is currently enjoying the holidays in his cat tower, while Gavin said she tries to keep him out of her Christmas tree.

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