Emotional Reunion for Man and His Lost 20-Year-Old Blind Cat

Posted in Cat Videos - On: May 23, 2017 - Author:  Jan Travell
Posted in Cat Videos 
Last Updated: June 28, 2021  
Author:  Jan Travell

It was an emotional moment when Raymond McNamara was reunited with his 20-year-old blind cat, Lily, after she was lost for two months in Florida.

They had been traveling cross-country from California together when the long-haired Himalayan wandered off and got lost. Devastated, McNamara alerted the authorities for help.

Kathy Bieniek, the vice president of Saving Sage Animal Rescue in Miami, told ABC news: “We organized the search party trying to find her but unfortunately she was not found. He left thinking his cat was gone.

Two months later I got a message on Facebook that a lady found a cat at the construction site where she was lost. We pieced it together … that was definitely was his cat. Lily did not have a microchip, but I had his mom’s phone number from when I was dealing with him earlier.”

Lily, who is blind and deaf, had managed to survive for two months on her own in the heat, and in the bad weather with torrential rain. She was terribly matted and sick.

But she was now in good hands and Kathy and the staff nursed her back to health. Once McNamara arrived, he was overcome with emotion to see his best friend again. “He broke down in tears and is never going to let her out of his sight again. She is his world,” said Kathy.

Find out more about Saving Sage Animal Rescue on their Facebook page

Click here to see a rescue cat nurse a sick lamb back to health

About the author

Jan Travell is a lifelong cat owner and a feline expert. She's been the Cats and Kittens lead editor from the start. She lives in rural France with her two rescue cats, Tigerlily and Mr.Gee. Her senior kitty, Ducati, passed over the rainbow bridge recently at the ripe old age of 22.

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