Woman gobsmacked as missing cat returns home after epic 300-mile journey from Scotland to Coventry

Beans the feline ventured further than his proprietor thought possible, someway making his mode to the West Midlands, wherever helium was spotted by Kelly Ryan, who realised thing wasn't right

An adorable cat named Beans, who went missing from his location past period has near his owners gobsmacked aft helium disappeared astatine the extremity of October aft going retired for his accustomed rotation and turned up implicit 300 miles away.

Beans, who is ginger and white, lives successful Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire with his owners, Cara, 40, and Colin McBurnie, 51. For weeks Cara and Colin desperately searched for him but helium was obscurity to beryllium found.

However, weeks later, they received a astonishing telephone from Cats Protection informing them that acknowledgment to his microchip, Beans had been located successful Coventry.

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Ms McBurnie said: "Beans loves to beryllium extracurricular and successful gardens. 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. 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."

Beans had embarked connected an escapade acold beyond what his proprietor could person imagined, someway ending up successful the West Midlands. There, 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.

"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 retired to scan Beans.

"I was truthful relieved erstwhile helium had a spot and a loving household who had registered him arsenic missing," she added. Wendy Harris astatine Cats Protection Coventry called Ms McBurnie with the bully quality and the adjacent day, November 12, Beans’ owners completed a 600-mile circular travel to cod him.

"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," said Ms McBurnie. "When we got him back, we fto him retired successful the car for a cuddle past enactment him backmost successful his bearer for the agelong journey.

She added: "We were each exhausted and helium slept successful the furniture each nighttime by my husband. Even my different cat, Missy, was blessed to spot him, they usually support a spot of a region but had a bully infinitesimal and a sniff together. I’m truthful gladsome we had him microchipped and updated his record. There’s nary mode he’d person travel backmost to america otherwise."

It is not known however Beans managed to question specified a distance. Madison Rogers, from Cats Protection, hailed the occurrence of microchipping aft a mislaid feline named Beans was returned to his household wrong a day. She said: "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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