Cat missing for 13 years is reunited with its owner after being found more than 140 miles away
Jade Yhnell, 37, was set to move house with her husband in 2012 but was devastated when their beloved pet Minx went missing.
After an extensive search the couple reluctantly decided to go ahead with relocating from Bristol to their new home in Tredegar, South Wales - without the five-year-old feline.
But miraculously, Ms Yhnell received a call from a vet more than a decade later with the news her much-missed cat had been found in Fishguard in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
Ms Yhnell, also a veterinary nurse, initially thought about not answering the call when it came up as an unknown number.
But recalling the revelation she said: 'I was overwhelmed. I was speechless. I couldn't stop shaking. I said to my husband "they've found Minx". He was quite shocked.
'It was really really wonderful. It was just amazing.
'She was in a really bad way but she recognised me immediately. She was headbutting me and purring.
'I was a mess as you can imagine. She was exactly the same with my husband, she was so excited to see him.'
Ms Yhnell took Minx home where the cat's health began to improve with help from her colleagues at Vets Now in Swansea.
The couple's daughter 'fell head over heels in love with her' and took her completely under her wing.
Ms Yhnell said: 'She just nurtured her. She was so wonderful and Minx was so wonderful as well.'
But sadly, things soon took a bittersweet turn as Minx was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer and died at the age of 18, after her short time spent with Ms Yhnell and her family.
Her doting owner said: 'She was purring right to the last breath. She was such a wonderful cat.
'I have nothing but gratitude that we had her back. I feel she came back to us for a reason, so that we could look after her in her final days. She knew how loved she was. She got to meet our babies and they absolutely adored her.'
Vet Andrew Clements, of Fishguard Vets, said he believed the cat had been looked after by strangers over the years.
He said: 'We read the chip as you do and it came up as that. The owner was a vets nurse at a practice and the cat had been missing for years and years.
'It is highly unlikely that the cat walked here. It's most likely that someone had picked her up and relocated or that she got into a vehicle and ended up here.
'Someone must have been looking after it for all these years. It was good with people.'
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