Lacking cat returns dwelling just after 6 a long time, comforts nurse battling COVID-19

CANADAIGIA, N.Y. (WTEN) – A cat lacking for six a long time is back again property just in time to convenience his operator, a nurse who’s battling COVID-19. 

“This is Charlie, he’s about 10 decades aged,” said Ashley Orians, although cuddling her orange tabby cat.  

They used 6 years apart, but the bond among her and Charlie is more powerful than ever. Their paths 1st crossed in 2010. 

“I located him on my faculty campus as a minimal very small kitten with a broken tail,” reported Ashley. 

She rescued Charlie, and now it’s his switch to comfort his proprietor as she recovers from COVID-19. 

Charlie disappeared in February of 2015 although Ashley was living in close proximity to Charleston, SC. She walked the streets, place up fliers, and hardly ever stopped exploring, even when she moved back again to upstate New York. 

“It’s been like thousands of orange cats that I have asked about, and none of them had the damaged tail,” she mentioned.

Perseverance paid out off. She noticed an orange tabby on a lacking pets Fb web site who just happened to have that distinctive characteristic, a broken tail.

Evidently, the curious cat experienced been residing outside the house a dentist’s place of work for all these many years. Employees saved him nicely fed and people constantly wanting for the welcoming feline they merely referred to as “Orange Kitty.”

But how to get Charlie 900 miles from South Carolina to New York though Ashley was underneath quarantine? Michael Morgan and his pet transport organization stepped in.

“It was undoubtedly an honor for my enterprise to be included in this reunion,” mentioned Morgan. “It blew me absent they ended up truly ready to obtain the cat and get it returned to her.”

Charlie’s return was beneficial ending to an especially complicated yr for Ashley, whose two other cats handed absent in 2020.

“I just just can’t even say how fired up I am that he’s again and what a fantastic get started to 2021, I couldn’t have requested for just about anything better,” explained Ashley.