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Media Releases

January 2024 media releases

Cat and owner reunited after six years thanks to up-to-date microchip details

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A Canberra woman and her 12-year-old cat have been reunited, more than six years after ‘Zeffa’ was presumed dead. Zeffa’s family had only recently moved to Canberra around 2017 when he escaped, on the same evening as a large storm hit the region. The cat’s owner, a former vet nurse, assumed the worst after nobody contacted her to say he’d been found. “He’s microchipped so after we couldn’t find him, we hoped that eventually he’d wind up at a vet and they’d scan his microchip and give me a call,” she said. “But the call never came and unfortunately we thought he must be dead.” The RSPCA ACT’s