[Lifestyle] Friends reunited: the life-affirming joy of finding a missing pet

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Lost dogs, cats, snakes, tortoises… Owners share their pet’s escape stories – and how they found them again

Erwin Schrödinger never actually owned a cat, but he might have known a thing or two about how it feels to have one go missing: a lost cat is simultaneously dead and alive, stuck in limbo.

Thousands of pet owners across the UK have experienced this thought experiment. According to research from Admiral Pet Insurance, more than 250,000 cats are currently unaccounted for and a moggy goes missing every three seconds. Add to that the packs of dogs, flocks of birds and colonies of rabbits that go missing each year and there are likely to be more than a million AWOL animals across Britain at any one time.

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link: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/aug/06/friends-reunited-the-life-affirming-joy-of-finding-a-missing-pet