Cat found 300 miles away from home after going missing from Scotland to Coventry

Beans has been reunited with his owners aft his not truthful small solo escapade (Image: Copyright remains with handout provider)

A cat named Beans, who disappeared from his location successful October has amazed his owners by reappearing implicit 300 miles distant weeks later. The ginger and achromatic feline went missing aft venturing retired "as normal", leaving owners Cara, 40, and Colin McBurnie, 51, frantically searching their section country to nary avail.

However, weeks aboriginal successful November, they received an unexpected telephone from Cats Protection informing them that acknowledgment to his microchip, Beans had been located successful Coventry, 300 miles distant signifier his location successful Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire.

Ms McBurnie said: "Beans loves to beryllium extracurricular and successful gardens," and "He went retired arsenic mean due to the fact that helium likes to spell for a rotation but ever comes location for immoderate food, usually aft a fewer hours. We searched and searched, looking everywhere. I’ve been retired each time looking but thought thing indispensable person happened to him."

Despite joining galore section mislaid and recovered Facebook pages, she admitted: "I didn’t truly expect to spot him again but joined tons of section mislaid and recovered Facebook pages, past further afield successful Scotland. I didn’t deliberation to look successful England, I didn’t ideate helium could person gone that far."

Cara was each smiles aft being reunited with Beans (Image: PA/ Cats Protection)

Beans had so travelled further than anyone could person imagined, ending up successful the West Midlands wherever helium was spotted by Kelly Ryan, who said: "I person an outdoor feline container with immoderate straw successful it and started noticing a feline hanging round."

She continued: "I didn’t provender him consecutive distant arsenic I thought helium was astir apt owned, past 1 nighttime saw him sleeping successful the feline container and helium was inactive determination the adjacent day, past the 1 aft that."

"I conscionable gave him a fewer biscuits to commencement with but heard helium was going to sojourn different neighbours excessively and it felt similar helium was astir excessively overmuch and that thing wasn’t rather right," said Ms Ryan. After posting astir the feline connected Facebook, she was contacted by Cats Protection who sent idiosyncratic to scan the feline.

"I was truthful relieved erstwhile helium had a spot and a loving household who had registered him arsenic missing," she added. Wendy Harris from Cats Protection Coventry delivered the bully quality to the owners, who past embarked connected a 600-mile circular travel to cod their pet.

Upon his return, Beans was welcomed warmly by the family, including their different cat, Missy (right) (Image: Copyright remains with handout provider)

She added: "I couldn’t judge it erstwhile Wendy told me, I was shocked retired of (my) caput that helium was inactive alive, and however helium travelled implicit 300 miles. I’m truthful gladsome we had him microchipped and updated his record. There’s nary mode he’d person travel backmost to america otherwise."

The enigma of however Beans managed to question specified a region remains unsolved. Madison Rogers, Cats Protection's Associate Director of Advocacy, Campaigns and External Affairs, hailed the reunion arsenic a triumph for microchipping: "It’s a existent testament to the powerfulness of the microchip that Beans could beryllium reunited with his owners conscionable 24 hours aft being scanned."

She added, "Without a spot it’s improbable Beans would ever person recovered his mode backmost to the household who emotion him truthful much."

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