Flap as pet Mickey makes trans-Pennine trip

A CAT has been reunited with his owner after spending three months living on a building site 80 miles from home.

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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When 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.