Kiki the cat, missing for 5 years, flies from Edmonton to Ontario for reunion with owners

For 5 several years, Elizabeth Antev and her spouse and children experienced provided up hope of at any time looking at their beloved cat again.

When dwelling in Edmonton, their Siamese cat Kiki obtained out and by no means arrived home.

“She’s generally been such a terrific cat. She just wants you to pet her, any individual whose satisfied her is familiar with that you really do not want to shed this cat,” Antev explained.

For months, after the 8-calendar year-outdated cat escaped, Antev reported she and her and her spouse and children labored tricky to check out and locate her.

They place up indicators, door-knocked, and handed out posters in their neighbourhood with zero results.

“We set out food stuff for her, we put out a trap, but we hardly ever caught everything — not her or everything else.”

Virtually a yr following Kiki went lacking, Antev and her spouse and children moved to Ontario.

“We type of almost gave up hope that we would find her at that place, we also experienced a lot of coyotes that lived in the neighborhood and we were being seriously worried about that.”

Soon after the move, Antev stated her partner tried using to get her to transform her telephone amount to an Ontario spot code.

Considering that it was the range mentioned on Kiki’s microchip nonetheless, she refused — keeping out hope that a person working day Kiki would be located.

In the meantime, the lacking cat experienced created her way to Hana Kadri’s residence in Rapperswill — a new neighbourhood in the Castledowns location of northwest Edmonton, which is fewer than a 10-minute drive absent from where by she went lacking.

Following she saw the little cat on her yard cameras, Kadri commenced leaving out food.

“I was household so I would see her come consume, and she would come three instances a day for food stuff, so I posted on a neighborhood Facebook website page to see if she belonged to any one,” mentioned Kadri.

With the enable of a neighbour, Kadri trapped Kiki and she was taken to the vet — the place her microchip was scanned, and Antev was named.

“Five several years later I obtained a connect with from the vet stating ‘we have Kiki,’” she claimed.

“I just begun sobbing. I was in shock.”

For staying dropped in Edmonton’s hartsh northern local weather, Kiki experienced faired quite well.

She experienced a pair of matts in her fur, was marginally underweight, and shed an ear to frostbite — but normally, the now 13-yr-previous cat was healthier.

A spouse and children friend then drove her from the vet to the Edmonton Worldwide Airport, and she was place on a flight to Ontario to be reunited with her owners.

As a cat lover herself, Kadri mentioned she was content she could be portion of the lengthy-awaited reunion.

Kiki now life Ontario, and is spoiled with treats and extra like.

“She’s going to be spoiled rotten.

“She doesn’t appear to be to be much too intrigued in the door any longer — I don’t think she’s going any place.”

Antev said she credits Kiki’s microchip to her currently being returned, and prompt all pet owners be certain their animals have a single.