Cat is found 130 miles from home

Tigger vanished from his home in Sully near Cardiff, in June.

After four weeks of poster appeals for information, his owner almost gave up hope of finding him until she got a call from a Hampshire couple.

Their son living near Sully, found Tigger and they took the "stray" home. During a vet check-up, Tigger's details emerged thanks to a microchip.

On first getting the call to say the cat was so far away, Tigger's owner Linda Short said: "I couldn't believe it I thought how the hell did he get to Hampshire? Unless he jumped into a taxi of course, how did he get there?

"It is just amazing, it is just a miracle, we are thrilled."

She explained how Tigger began his travels earlier in the summer.

"He disappeared early June and ended up in a little village near Cowbridge, and after wandering around the village, a very kind gentleman in the village took him in gave him shelter in an old chicken coop in his back garden.

"I think he was delighted to come home but I think he enjoyed his little holiday to Hampshire as well"
Linda Short

"His parents came to stay from Hampshire, thought he was a lovely cat and didn't like the fact he had no where to go so they took him back to Hampshire with them.

"The lady in Hampshire took him along to her local vet to have him checked over and the vet scanned him and he is micro chipped so they discovered he belonged to us and let us know.

"I think he was delighted to come home but I think he enjoyed his little holiday to Hampshire as well.

"After three or four weeks, I really thought something awful had happened to him and we would never see him again.

"He is the most precious cat and I have been to hell and back over the last two months looking for him and fearing the worst."