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TEXT 2: MO, THE CAT

1 A cat has surprisingly been reunited with his family eight years after he went missing. Mo —the cat— was staying in a cattery on the

2 outskirts of Swansea eight years ago, while his humans went on holiday. On their return, one of the family’s cats, Tibby, was waiting

3 for them, but they were devastated to find Mo had gone missing. “We were utterly heartbroken when we found out that the cattery had

4 lost Mo,” says Izzy Harris, who was a teenager when Mo, then three, went missing.

5 Izzy and her parents searched for their pet for months, printing flyers and putting adverts in the newspaper. However, they also knew

6 there was a small chance they’d see him again. “There was something so horrible about imagining him alone,” continues Izzy, “the

7 cattery was near some busy main roads as well, so we couldn’t stop picturing the worst, that he’d been hit by a car.”

8 After months of searching, the family accepted he was gone, and only hoped that he’d found someone else to live with —and they

9 were right! As a matter of fact, Mo had moved in with an elderly lady.

10 Last October, the Harris family received an unexpected call from a veterinary centre. “They said they’d found a cat matching Mo’s

11 microchip and that he’d been living near where he got lost with an old lady who had passed away.”

12 Izzy and Mo met finally again thanks to the power of microchipping. The black cat has a lot of catching up to do, as the family

13 currently has three other cats. The girl says they feel incredibly relieved, but also hopeful. If this can happen, anything can.

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The Harris family was greatly upset because...

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Mo, the cat,...

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Mo was in the city centre when he escaped.

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The family thought it would be very hard to get Mo back.

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The old lady called the Harris and asked them to pick up the cat.

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The cat has to get used to new company.

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