Some may remember Josie the stray kitten who appeared out of nowhere three years ago. After taming her, spending a considerable sum at the vet and growing to love her she then vanished as suddenly as she had appeared.

The other day a local friend saw a post on the facebook page of the neighbouring village. A cat had been seen, regularly in a garden (a home where 11 lucky cats already reside) and was being fed. The cat lovers wondered if anyone had lost a tabby. My friend thought that the tabby looked like our lost Josie and she put me in contact with the cat people. Tonight, as the sun was setting, I sat opposite the feeding place where the tabby usually appeared. Sure enough a mewling announced her arrival and the cat people put out a dish of food. I sat in the doorway and took some photographs. I crawled closer and the cat stayed it’s ground. I called, “Josie”, but she didn’t respond.

The cat people are going to borrow a mobile scanner which would detect a microchip and identify an address. If this cat has a microchip it will link to an address. If it is our address then the cat is Josie. No microchip then definitely not our tabby. I hoped it might be Josie but I think that it is not the lost moggy. Mabel and Nigel say, “two’s company but three’s a crowd!”.