“We discovered your cat,” the caller said, according to neighborhood Idaho newspaper the Coeur d’Alene Press. “We discovered Harriet.”

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After chatting with the caller, an worker at an Idaho animal shelter Companions Animal Center, for a piece longer, things clicked for Moore.

Harriet become hers — however she went missing nine years ago from her California ranch.

Over a decade ago, while Harriet changed into only a kitten, Moore rescued her from a refuge. She and her family had just moved to the u . S . And wanted a “precise barn cat.”

While she grew to become out to be a devoted barn cat — and high-quality rodent killer — years after being adopted Harriet disappeared with out a hint.

Moore informed the hole she “attempted the whole lot” to locate her cat, looking round their united states domestic, contacting shelters and checking lost pet web sites.

Her husband hypothesized that coyotes had killed Harriet.

It’s unclear in which Harriet has been for the past decade, however she turned into found in Hayden, Idaho on Sept. 19 by a passerby, who then added the stray kitty to Companions Animal Center.

After scanning the stray Harriet for a microchip, the center made the call to Moore.

“We referred to as the proprietor,” stated Vicky Nelson, Development Director at Companions. “When [the family] answered and we instructed them we had their cat, they have been speechless.”

While Moore became elated to pay attention that Harriet is alive and in properly health, she remains curious approximately exactly how she ended up two states over.

She thinks it is probably viable that Harriet either sneaked aboard her husband’s horse trailer or a neighbor discovered her and then moved to Idaho.

Though Moore thinks that Harriet probably had every other owner within the nine years she’s been lacking, she’s happy to take her returned.

Unless someone steps ahead to say Harriet, she’ll be reunited with Moore and her family.

“I would really like to leave her in which she is at,” Moore told the Coeur d’Alene Press. “She simply does not belong to me. She belongs to anyone else.” Regardless, she can thankfully welcome the long-misplaced cat returned to her ranch, in which she hopes she can get in conjunction with their barn cats and other animals — dogs and several horses.

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