'The lady on the phone immediately said his name and I almost screamed. IT’S HIM!!!': After two years of searching, a cat rescuer's hunch about a stray feline is confirmed by a microchip scan, leading to a heartfelt reunion with her beloved cat, Rus

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Aug 22, 2025 12:00 PM EDT

Losing a cat is one of the hardest things that a cat pawrent can go through. Not only are you missing the company of your cute cat child, but you do not know where they are, what they are doing, if they are eating well, if they are grooming themselves properly and the saddest of all, if they are even alive.

It is a heinous heartbreak that can only really be fixed by returning the missing piece of your heart. And while most people might have given up hope after a few months of absence, the woman in today's story stayed true to her cat child and did not give up hope for two whole years. And you know what, it paid off, because it seems that the Cat Distribution System understood that these two were fated to be together, and delivered her cat back to her two years after he first disappeared. How wholesome.
 

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    When I was 19, I was supposed to get a kitten from one of my friends. I ended up being guilted to take in 2 more abandoned kittens that were a few weeks younger. I had to bottle
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    feed them, help them go to the bathroom until they were old enough to do it on their own and watched them all grow from 4-6 weeks til about 2 years old. (Let's call them Cer, Ber, and Rus)
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    I had a mental crisis around the time the cats were 2 years old and had to give them to my mom because I was going to stay with my dad for a short period of time.
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    About two weeks after she had the cats, the told me that Rus had gone missing and that she thought he had fallen off her fire escape. I was honestly heartbroken because he was the one that I had bonded the most with. I had dreams
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  • Oh goodness, this is not what you need to hear when you have just placed your soul cats in the care of someone else because you are having a tough time mentally. All those thoughts racing through your mind added to your already heavy mental load is just no good for anyone.

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    about him for months and would often cry when thinking about him. He was a very sweet and affectionate cat, but was terrified of everyone and everything aside from me and one of my younger cousins. I no longer lived
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    in the area, but always tried to look around for him whenever I did visit. I had a baby a year ago and make monthly visits to my Aunt and cousins house so we can spend time with them as we live
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    black grey cat being washed in the bath tub
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    in a different state now. When we were heading out to a restaurant for dinner, my younger cousin jokingly pointed at a black cat and joked that it was Rus. I hadn't given.
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    up on looking for him, so I walked over and looked at the cat. It looked just like him. White markings on the ears, chest and even the belly. My cousin and fiance tried catch him, but he ran away from them so I said screw it. i hopped the fence and
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    grabbed him. He didn't fight me, no scratches or bites. He did try to escape from my fiances arms once we swaddled him in a blanket while my aunt grabbed a cat carrier from her apartment.
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    Once we brought him back home, we set him up in the bathroom with some litter, food and water, and a little kitty cave so he would adjust to us. He was still very
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  • Holy moly, what are the chances that this is actually her cat from two years ago? That is the thing about cats, they have a way of just casually rocking up whenever it suits them. Swanning in at the exact time and place they needed to be somewhere. 

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    scared of my fiance and baby, but he immediately started to smell and rub up on me. I sat with him for about an hour and he was walking around the
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    bathroom, looking around and demanding pets from me like he already knew who I was. What really sealed the deal was when I gave him a bath. He reacted the
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    exact same way Bee and Rus did. He was quiet, not aggressive in any way and stayed silent for almost the entirety of the bath. Gave one little meow and did try to get out of the tub once, but no issues other than that.
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    The next day, he mostly sat on his kitty cave until I came to the bathroom, then he was all over me again. I allowed him to
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    explore the house a little and he mainly stayed by me. Cuddling and rubbing up on me as always.
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    I genuinely believe it's him. The same coloring, behavior and his reaction to getting a bath as Rus.
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    I did have him Ber and Rus microchipped when I had them neutered (which this cat is also neutered!!) and I intend to take him to the vet next week to get it scanned to see if my information comes up. It's
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    been 2 years and I'm so happy to have found him. I will try to update again when I test his chip!!
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    EDIT: I am so happy. It's my baby boy!!! I was able to go to Petco today since they said they were open last 6pm. They scanned his microchip and were very surprised that he even had one since apparently most
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    cats that are brought in do not. They gave me a website and a hotline to reach out to in order to check his microchip number. The website wasn't much help, but the hotline was. I gave my
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    information and the lady on the phone immediately said his name and I almost screamed. ITS HIM!!! ITS MY CAT!!!
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    I am so happy and feel so lucky that I was able to find him that day. I can't wait to love and spoil him all over again!
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