КОШКА НАШЛАСЬ… ЧЕРЕЗ 11 ЛЕТ ПОСЛЕ ТОГО, КАК ПОТЕРЯЛАСЬ
Продолжаем рубрику Caturday, так зачастую называют Saturday - субботу.
То есть это день кошки, кошкин день, субкота, так сказать.
Сегодня мы прочитаем рассказ о кошке, которая… Но всё по порядку.
Одиннадцать лет тому назад кошка по кличке Мисси сбежала из автомобиля, когда её хозяйка, Ив (Ева) МакДоннелл отлучилась купить молока. Кошку искали-искали, но так и не нашли.
Одна пара нередко замечали возле дома какую-то кошку. Они с ней подружились и даже соорудили для неё деревянный домик. А после отвезли кошку в местный приют для животных. Там у кошки обнаружили микрочип. Так удалось найти её хозяйку, и да, это оказалась та самая Мисси.
Missy escaped from Eve McDonnell's car in 2009 in Birmingham when she stopped to buy some milk. Eve looked for her cat high and low, but the cat was never found.
A couple often saw a cat on the driveway near their home. They befriended the cat and would feed her, and even built a wooden shed for her to sleep in.
Then they took the cat to the local Rescue centre where they discovered the cat was microchipped. The cat was was traced back to 72-year-old Ms McDonnell.
And yes, it was Missy.
"You could see her spine all the way down her back, that's how skinny she came in. Her white fur is discoloured because she's been sleeping rough," Eve said.
Missy has to eat kitten food, because she has lost many teeth, but has returned to her favourite place to sleep, on the stairs at their home.
"She's had a rough time, but she's still my cat," Eve says.
"I can't believe she's alive, I never stopped thinking about her."
Ms McDonnell said she was in a "state of disbelief" Missy, now 17, was alive.
"I never stopped thinking about her. You just don't forget your pets - they are irreplaceable," she said, after an emotional reunion with Missy earlier this week.
По материалам Би-Би-Си.
to sleep rough = to sleep out of doors;
спать под открытым небом
to sleep (slept - slept) = спать
to look for somebody/something high and low - искать повсюду