Missing cat reunited with family after six years

A cat who went missing from her home in Guernsey has been reunited with her owner after six years.

Lalana moved to Vale with her family in 2019 but managed to escape after becoming frightened by something.

Her family had given up all hope of finding her but have now been reunited after she was found living in a hedge and was rescued by animal volunteer Sue Vidamour.

Ms Vidamour checked the 13-year-old Lalana’s microchip linking to her old address in Castel and contacted the Cozens family who “feared the worst” had happened to her.

Hayden Cozens said: “You would think you’d be able to find someone on Guernsey quite easily.”

The family used to live on a farm where Lalana had free use of the fields.

He said she first went missing not long after they moved when she went back to her old home, and after a more settled period disappeared more permanently a few months later.

She had been surviving by eating another cats food, and when the owner caught her in the act, he contacted Ms Vidamour from Guernsey Lost and Found Pets to carry out the trapping and rescue.

She was found near the Puffin and Oyster at Grand Havre and Mr Cozens said: “It’s a heck of a distance. I do not know what she’s been doing really.

“I do not think she’s had much human contact for the last few years.”

She is now being kept indoors for the next eight weeks to try and keep her safe and build up her body weight.

“Hopefully she’ll decide that she wants to stick around,” he added.