Missing Swiss cat turns up 600km away in Germany

Published: 30 Sep 2016 12:28 GMT+02:00

A family's much-loved cat who went missing from her home in the north-eastern Swiss city of St Gallen more than a year ago has been found 600 kilometres away in Bonn, Germany.

According to daily 20 Minuten, the 15-year-old moggy, called Sissi, disappeared from her home at the end of August 2015.

The cat’s distressed family looked everywhere for Sissi – who is deaf – but, as winter approached, finally gave up hope.

“It was very difficult for us. Tears flowed,” owner Julika Fitzi told the paper.

So she was amazed when she was contacted by a cat refuge in Bonn to say they had found Sissi in the German city and identified her by her microchip.

Refuge worker Susanne Wanniger told Germany’s Express paper on Thursday that the cat was found by a resident in the city centre of Bonn in a dire state – covered in fleas and very thin.

While no one knows how Sissi managed to travel the 600km to Bonn, Fitzi thinks she probably got into a vehicle by mistake and was accidentally driven there.

It takes around six hours to drive between the two cities.