A cat named Mimi went missing in 2012. She just turned up at a shelter. [View all]

When Richard and Maria Price got a call from a New York area code last week, the couple — who now live in Spain — figured it was just another spam call.

But then the phone ran again, the same number popping up on the screen.

“Did you used to own a black-and-white cat?” the person on the other end asked them.

They had — a fluffy, skittish cat named Mimi. But they hadn’t seen her in a decade.

Mimi went missing in 2012 after fleeing through an open door, two years after the Price family had adopted her. They’d spent more than a year searching around New York, but to no avail, and had lost hope that they’d ever reunite with her. Last year, the couple moved to Valencia, Spain after Richard Price retired. They brought along three cats they’d adopted since losing Mimi: Patch, Tiny and Groot.

But on Dec. 5, someone from Miller Place, N.Y., where Mimi had gone missing a decade ago, brought her to the Brookhaven Animal Shelter and Adoption Center. Workers there found the cat had a microchip, which identified her owners. They called the Price family that day at the same phone number they had when they lived in New York.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/12/16/missing-cat-reunited-with-owners/