If cats could talk, then Twilight would have a hair-raising tale to tell of being catnapped from her Cache Creek home, left in the wilderness 20 miles away, and ending up at the SPCA in Port Coquitlam after being rescued by Good Samaritans.
The eight-year-old pure black cat was last seen outside her Cache Creek home on Sept. 21. Angela Taylor, Twilight91裸聊视频檚 owner, says that a week earlier a neighbour she takes care of reported that a man had pulled up in a car and picked up Twilight, then dropped the cat and sped off when he saw the neighbour watching.
91裸聊视频淥n Sept. 21 we didn91裸聊视频檛 see Twilight anymore,91裸聊视频� says Taylor. 91裸聊视频淭here were bears in the neighbourhood at the time, and people told us 91裸聊视频楽he91裸聊视频檚 bear food.91裸聊视频�91裸聊视频� However, Taylor couldn91裸聊视频檛 help thinking that someone had come back and stolen Twilight, their beautiful house panther who would go with the family for walks around the neighbourhood.
The family had rescued her in 2015, when she was 18 months old. 91裸聊视频淲e had moved here from the coast in 2015, and I had promised my daughter Kendra we could have a cat. I saw an ad for Twilight and her kittens, and I phoned up and asked about Twilight. The woman said that most people wanted the kittens, but I said we wanted Twilight.91裸聊视频�
Taylor picked up Twilight from Kamloops, then picked up Kendra, who was five at the time. 91裸聊视频淪he knew she was going to get a rabbit or a cat, but she didn91裸聊视频檛 know when. All my animals just happen when they happen.
91裸聊视频淪he heard a meow, and was so excited. 91裸聊视频業s that real? Is it for me?91裸聊视频� I turned the crate with Twilight in it around so she could put her fingers in, and Twilight started rubbing up against them. It was love at first sight. She picked Kendra. She91裸聊视频檚 her human.91裸聊视频�
After Twilight vanished, Kendra was inconsolable, crying every day about her missing meow meow. 91裸聊视频淜endra does her homework with Twilight, and the cat sleeps on her bed.
91裸聊视频淓very day she would ask if I91裸聊视频檇 heard anything. I didn91裸聊视频檛 want to give her false hopes, but I told her that there were stories about cats coming back two months later. I literally said 91裸聊视频楾wo months.91裸聊视频�91裸聊视频�
Taylor never stopped hoping that Twilight would be found, and put numerous posts online on a missing pets site. In the meantime, the family adopted another cat, Cheese, to go with the family91裸聊视频檚 remaining pets: Harold the cat and Bella, a chocolate lab.
Then, on Nov. 13, Taylor got a phone call out of the blue.
91裸聊视频淎 woman said 91裸聊视频楿m, Angela Taylor? It91裸聊视频檚 the Port Coquitlam SPCA, and we think we have Twilight here.91裸聊视频� I was just a blubbering idiot when I heard that.91裸聊视频�
When Taylor got Twilight in 2015, she had a microchip put in the cat91裸聊视频檚 neck so that they wouldn91裸聊视频檛 lose her. She is now extremely grateful she made that decision: 91裸聊视频淚f it wasn91裸聊视频檛 for that she would just have been a stray cat brought in to the Port Coquitlam SPCA, and she would have gone to whoever adopted her.91裸聊视频�
The story of how Twilight got from Cache Creek to Port Coquitlam was an amazing one.
91裸聊视频淎 couple found her at the Red Hills rest stop on Highway 1, about 15 miles south of Cache Creek. They pulled in and she was meowing and crying, and walked right up to them. It91裸聊视频檚 in the middle of nowhere, and she was obviously a domesticated cat, and they thought 91裸聊视频楾his isn91裸聊视频檛 right.91裸聊视频� So they picked her up and took her home with them to Port Coquitlam and took her to the SPCA there.91裸聊视频�
When Taylor got off the phone with the SPCA she called Kendra. 91裸聊视频淚 said 91裸聊视频楪uess what, they91裸聊视频檝e found Twilight!91裸聊视频� and she gave a happy cry. There were tears pouring down my face.91裸聊视频�
However, the family was not able to get Twilight back home right away.
91裸聊视频淚 went down to the coast on Nov. 14, but got stopped by the washout at Tank Hill on Highway 1. I went back to Spences Bridge and took Highway 8 to Merritt, where I had to get a battery. They told me they couldn91裸聊视频檛 put it in, but I roughhoused the guy into putting it in. I was driving around hell91裸聊视频檚 half-acre, and the weather was stopping me, but I didn91裸聊视频檛 care. I was trying to do everything I could to get down and rescue my cat.91裸聊视频�
By then, however, flooding had closed all the routes to the coast, and Taylor was forced to head back to Cache Creek on the only open highway. 91裸聊视频淚 left the house a 8 a.m. and got home at 9:30 p.m.91裸聊视频�
Thankfully, her older daughter Natalia was on the coast and able to pick up Twilight. 91裸聊视频淪he was an evacuee with the cat for a week, and they were finally able to make it up late on Nov. 21.91裸聊视频�
It was an emotional reunion for everyone.
91裸聊视频淭wilight was really excited to get home. She was saying hi to Kendra, butting heads with her. It was amazing. We had a group hug with the cat in the middle, and Harold popped his head in. Then all of a sudden Cheese popped his head in, and gave a big hiss, and Twilight gave a meow and hissed at Cheese.91裸聊视频�
In all the excitement they had forgotten Cheese, who was new to Twilight. Taylor says that the animals have all come to an understanding, now that Twilight has been back for a few days.
The SPCA said that someone had been feeding Twilight, as the cat was not malnourished. 91裸聊视频淚 told her that she had been chubby. She91裸聊视频檚 skinny now.91裸聊视频�
Taylor thinks that Twilight got mad and clawed whoever had taken her, so they threw her out of the car, leaving her to be found by the Good Samaritans who pulled in to the rest stop. She adds that it isn91裸聊视频檛 the first time Twilight has proven that she91裸聊视频檚 a survivor.
91裸聊视频淲e almost lost her twice during the 2017 wildfires. We were evacuating from Cache Creek, and I was getting Kendra and me ready. In the confusion Twilight got loose, and she was so scared she ran under the deck. By the time we realized what was going on we were surrounded by fire, but my niece managed to grab her by the tail and pull her out.
91裸聊视频淭hen, while we were waiting at the ESS centre in Kamloops, she got off her leash and jumped in the river. My nephew had to jump in and get her.
91裸聊视频淭wilight is such a lucky cat. She has more than nine lives.91裸聊视频�
Taylor has no idea how long Twilight was out in the wild, but is convinced she is trying to tell them about her adventures.
91裸聊视频淪he91裸聊视频檚 a very vocal cat, and we swear she91裸聊视频檚 trying to tell us stories about what happened between here and where she was found. It91裸聊视频檚 amazing to have her back; I91裸聊视频檓 grinning from ear to ear. We91裸聊视频檙e so happy and so blessed.91裸聊视频�
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