On Friday, a one-eyed cat reunited with his family following five years away thanks to rescuers who flew the cat home in a helicopter after finding the feline stowed away in a shipper container.
TheScottish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals(SSPCA) picked up the pet from an offshore shipping container near Scotland and gave him “a personal helicopter ride back to shore,” according toa news releasefrom the organization.
“We’ve no idea how the cat ended up there but attended the heliport this morning to collect him,” Aimee Findlay, an SSPCA animal rescue officer, said in the release.
The shipping container carrying the cat ended up at an oil rig, where the humans reached out to the SSPCA for assistance getting the cat back on land.
The felinenicknamed “One-Eyed Joe” was living as a stray around Peterhead Prison in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, before he made his way into a shipping container near the facility that was transported to the oil rig, according to the SSPCA.
Findlay added that the organization appreciates that the cat was “well looked for the time he was missing.”
Scottish SPCA
“But we’re even more delighted to be able to reunite him with his original owner thanks to his microchip being up to date,” she shared.
The cat’s owner Bridie Dorta toldBBC Scotlandthat she was “quite shocked” to be reunited with Dexter.
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“He’s always been a wanderer,” she said. “He went away a few years ago, and we never heard anything about him since. We never expected him to end up back here.”
Dorta told the outlet she hopesher felinewill be able to stay in touch with the prisoners who helped him.
source: people.com
