Flap as pet Mickey makes trans-Pennine trip
Owner Heather Blades discovered her cat had sneaked out in the middle of the night in February and she put posters around her home town in a desperate bid to find her pet.
Unknown to Mrs Blades, Mickey had embarked on an adventure, apparently climbing aboard a lorry and travelling from his home in Pontefract to Warrington, Cheshire.
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Hide AdWhen he arrived at a construction site after apparently hitching a ride on the back of a truck, the cat made repeated attempts to get home on the back of other vehicles. But after his failures, he decided to set up a new home on the site – dodging machinery and being fed bacon sandwiches by the workers.
It was only when work was finished that a builder took Mickey to a vet in Oldham, where they discovered he was microchipped with his home details.
Mother-of-two Mrs Blades, 30, said: "The builder who took him to the vet said he'd been at the site for a while. They'd been feeding him and seen Mickey trying to climb on trucks as though he wanted to go home."
The veterinary nurse, husband Rob, a soldier, and children Cameron, six, and Keilan, four, have now decided to keep the cat flap locked at night.