An Australian cat named Clyde was on his way home to Tasmania after turning up at an Outback hospital thousands of kilometers away in the country’s latest mystery pet odyssey.
Clyde, a long-haired Himalayan who had been missing for three years, appeared at Queensland’s Cloncurry Hospital, 3,800km from the southern state of Tasmania, and was identified by his microchip.
The pedigree feline was a birthday present for Ashleigh Sullivan, now 19, before he disappeared from the family home in Hobart, capital of the southern island state.
“The (family) plastered southern Tasmania with photos looking for him when he did originally go missing to no joy, so they are just stoked,” said Queensland veterinarian Donna Weber.
“(Sullivan) still can’t believe it and I’m sure they’re going to be really glad to get him home,” she told ABC radio.
Weber said Clyde was skittish and had “obviously been living like a wild cat” but appeared to be well-fed and as fit as a fiddle. He was being flown back to Hobart to be reunited with his owner.
Sullivan’s mother Kathleen Phillips said four-year-old Clyde must have stowed away with tourists driving across the country.
“The people (must) have got to their destination and realized they had a passenger but didn’t know where he was from or how to return him,” she said.
In July, white mongrel dog Muffy appeared in a Melbourne suburb, flea-bitten and filthy, an incredible nine years after going missing 2,000km away on Queensland’s Gold Coast.(AFP)
澳洲一隻名叫「克萊德」的家貓踏上返家旅程;家在塔斯馬尼亞的牠竟出現在離家數千公里遠的內陸一間醫院,成為澳洲最新的寵物離奇歷險故事。
已失蹤三年的喜馬拉雅長毛貓克萊德,出現在距離南部塔斯馬尼亞省三千八百公里遠的昆士蘭省克朗克里醫院。牠的身份已透過晶片確認。
這隻純種貓本是現年十九歲的艾胥利.沙利文的生日禮物,後來牠從塔斯馬尼亞省首府霍巴特市的家中走失。
昆士蘭獸醫朵娜.韋伯說:「當牠走失音訊全無時,(這家人)在塔斯馬尼亞省南部到處張貼照片尋貓,因此現在他們十分興奮。」
她對澳洲國家廣播電台表示:「(沙利文)至今仍不敢置信,我相信他們非常高興可以接牠回家。」
韋伯說,克萊德很容易受驚,「顯然過去這段時間都過著野貓般的生活」,但似乎沒有餓著肚子且非常健康。牠將被送回霍巴特與飼主團聚。
蘇利文的母親凱瑟琳.菲利普斯說,四歲大的克萊德一定是搭上遊客的車,才會橫渡澳洲。
她說:「那些人(一定是)到了目的地,才發現這個不請自來的乘客,卻不知道牠從何而來,也不知道該把牠送回哪裡。」
今年七月,九年前在昆士蘭黃金海岸走失的白色米克斯狗「麻菲」,也滿身跳蚤髒兮兮地出現在兩千公里外的墨爾本郊區。(法新社╱翻譯:袁星塵)
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