Alaska cat is reunited with owner years later and 3,400 miles away. ‘Christmas miracle’
A cat from Alaska will be spending the holidays in a much warmer climate after a reunion with her owner that was about four years in the making, according to a cat rescue group and news reports.
The feline, named Luna, recently was scooped up as a stray, Alaska’s Forgotten Felines wrote in a Dec. 3 Facebook post.
It turned out the cat had a microchip, which traced back to her owner, who’d moved to Nevada, according to the post.
Alex Halcom, who caught Luna and was caring for her in Alaska, told Alaska’s News Source that the impending reunion was “kind of like a Christmas miracle, you know.” Luna had lived with her owner close by, and was thin and dirty with a frostbite injury on her ears when Halcom found her, Halcom told the station.
After the owner was tracked down using the microchip, Alaska’s Forgotten Felines put out a call on Facebook, and a volunteer agreed to escort Luna on a flight, the group said.
Luna’s owner, Isis Jackson, who lived in Alaska while serving in the military, was waiting on the other end in Las Vegas, KVVU reported. Luna had escaped from Jackson’s garage when she was a kitten, Jackson told the station.
“I am happy I got her microchipped and all I can say to the public, if you love your pet get them microchipped because you never know what may happen,” she told KVVU.
This story was originally published December 10, 2024 at 12:58 PM with the headline "Alaska cat is reunited with owner years later and 3,400 miles away. ‘Christmas miracle’."
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