Lacking cat returns household immediately after 6 years, comforts nurse battling COVID-19 | WJHL

CANADAIGIA, N.Y. (WTEN) – A cat lacking for 6 several years is back dwelling just in time to comfort his proprietor, a nurse who’s battling COVID-19. 

“This is Charlie he’s about 10 several years old,” mentioned Ashley Orians whilst cuddling her orange tabby cat.  

They expended 6 years apart, but the bond amongst her and Charlie is more robust than ever. Their paths to start with crossed in 2010. 

“I discovered him on my higher education campus as a little small kitten with a broken tail,” stated Orians. 

She rescued Charlie, and now it is his turn to consolation his owner as she recovers from COVID-19. 

Charlie disappeared in February of 2015 although Ashley was dwelling around Charleston, South Carolina. She walked the streets, place up fliers and under no circumstances stopped seeking — even when she moved back again to upstate New York. 

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

Perseverance paid off. She spotted an orange tabby on a missing animals Fb web site who just transpired to have that unique characteristic — a broken tail.

Evidently, the curious cat experienced been residing exterior a dentist’s business for all these many years. Team saved him properly fed, and clients often appeared for the pleasant feline they merely named “Orange Kitty.”

But how to get Charlie 900 miles from South Carolina to New York while Ashley was less than quarantine? Michael Morgan and his pet transport business enterprise stepped in.

“It was surely an honor for my organization to be involved in this reunion,” explained Morgan. “It blew me absent they had been in fact in a position to uncover the cat and get it returned to her.”

Charlie’s return was a good ending to an especially complicated yr for Ashley, whose two other cats died in 2020.

“I just can’t even say how energized I am that he’s back and what a great start to 2021 I could not have requested for anything improved,” reported Orians.