I can´t believe it.  We finally found missing cat Pompon, and his story is just short of a miracle.

He escaped from a house in La Asomada 20 days ago, and every single day his owner, Claudia, looked for him, put up posters, talked to everybody and put ads in the local papers. She never gave up.  Since I don´t have much work on at the moment, I decided to help her (+ I have a car, which helps!) after meeting her on Cat Lovers Lanzarote, a group that I created on Facebook a while ago. 

We didn´t find Pompon until today, when a vet in Arrecife called Claudia telling her that he had been knocked down by a car. Luckily a man had witnessed the accident and kindly (unbelievably! This kind of thing doesn´t often happen in Lanzarote!) took Pompon to the those vets – which happened to be just round the corner from where he was hit!

Pompon might still lose his left eye, but we are waiting to see if that heals and hope that it won´t come to that. Otherwise he has no broken bones, but he is painfully thin. Because of the injuries to his face he also lost a couple of teeth and probably has a lot of pain in his mouth, but Claudia will feed him with a syringe if he can´t eat. When we got him back to Claudia´s place, he drank water without problems, which is a good thing of course.

We still can´t believe how much of a miracle cat Pompon is. He made his way about 15km from La Asomada to Arrecife without a scratch, surviving all that way there, then the kind man who picked him up (who are you?) and who took him to the vets after the accident, and the vets happening to be just round the corner.  And the veterinary assistant´s name is Angelica. What an ANGEL.

What are the odds of all that, ey?  Can´t believe it. Claudia and I are both so over the moon – and Pompon seems very happy too…. *sniff*

Claudia talking to Pompon at the vets – beautiful reunion!

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Claudia with Pompon on car journey home from the vets