27/02/2026
We love a good reunion story 🐈🏡❤️
✨ Miracles can happen - reunited after 5 years missing! 🐾
Young Bowie, a unique, light-ginger tabby cat, was just one year old when he disappeared from his home and was missing for five years. According to his guardian, one day he just simply didn’t come home. They searched everywhere for him - including putting up posters, offering a reward, sharing posts in community groups, and contacting their local vets with no luck... yet never truly giving up hope, even as the years passed.
Then recently, something remarkable happened!
Bowie was discovered living underneath a house nearly 40 kilometres from where he went missing! A kind member of the public had been feeding him for a couple of months whilst trying to gain his trust to get him checked for a microchip. They were unaware that he belonged to someone who had been missing him for five incredibly long years.
And here’s where the story becomes pure magic. Bowie has two different coloured eyes, one blue and one green - a unique feature that makes him unforgettable. The person caring for him noticed those striking eyes and, without knowing his history or name, started calling him… Bowie. The exact same name his family had given him years earlier!
When that kind member of the public was finally able to get his microchip scanned, they reached out to our support office who were able to contact his original guardian. That initial phone call that Bowie’s guardian had long hoped for and the reunion itself was very emotional.
“After 5 years, standing there and seeing him again felt surreal…like a miracle we never stopped hoping for,” according to Bowie’s guardian.
He was a little uncertain at first and no longer their tiny one-year-old wee boy anymore, but undeniably their Bowie! Since their incredible reunion, he has settled in well and has made himself right at home again where he belongs!
Stories like this are a great reminder of why microchipping and keeping your details up to date on the New Zealand Companion Animal Register matters so much.
Microchips don’t expire, and hope doesn’t either! Welcome home, Bowie! 💙💚🐾
