EIGHTEEN months ago Mia the pet cat went missing from her Kelso home.
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Her owner, Phoebe Barnes-King, was devastated. She spent spent days looking for her until eventually giving up hope of ever seeing her again.
But that all changed on Friday night, when she got a call from the pound to say Mia had been found, and was at the vet's ready for collection.
Ms Barnes-King said she was so excited to get Mia back she literally started crying.
Mia first went missing back in April 2020. Ms Barnes-King was living with housemates, and Mia, who she'd had for about two years, was being trained as an indoor - outdoor cat. One morning she just disappeared.
"I was pretty torn up about it, I cried myself to sleep for two months straight, I thought I'd never see her again," she said.
A couple of months after that she moved out into a different house, and got a call from one of the people she used to live with.
"They called up and said I found your cat I've got her here come get her.
"I drove over straight away, but I didn't have a cat carrier at the time so I used a box. We got her in the car, but just as I was shutting the door she managed to get out and she ran off again."
Again, Phoebe thought she would never see her again.
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But, on Friday afternoon, Phoebe's boss messaged her, saying Marg from the pound was trying to get into contact, because they had found her old cat.
"I was really confused I honestly thought Mia would have died.
"I called the pound they didn't have any information, I call the vet but they couldn't give me any information because the details they had didn't match up correctly.
"So I got in contact with Marg and she said 'we found the cat's microchip under your name, the last address we have is down in Griffin Street' which is where I lived when I adopted her.
"Straight away I went oh my God, It's Mia.
"I quickly got dressed, jumped in the car went down there. She remembered me straight away
"They brought her in the room she came out of the box started to meow and rubbing her head against me I almost cried."
She said other than a wound under her leg, where her collar had been caught the entire 12 months she was missing, Mia was okay.
"The vets told me she would need surgery because that's what they thought, but when they put her under and shaved the area, it wasn't as bad as they thought."
"The wound will heal itself, and she's on antibiotics twice a day."
She said Mia has settled in back home really well.
"It's like she never left," she said.
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