A 2-year-old cat that went missing in March 2011 has been reunited with his family after 10 years of being lost in Aberdeen, Scotland. The now-12-year-old feline, according to his overjoyed owners, will have a “very happy and relaxing retirement.” The Scottish SPCA was called after Forbes the cat was spotted in Aberdeen’s Ferrier Gardens neighborhood looking “very thin with protruding bones,” the SPCA said in their news release. Animal rescue officer Greg Stevenson attended to the friendly tomcat at the site and scanned him for a microchip. Finding one, he was able to call Forbes’s former owners, Neil and Lucy Henderson, while Forbes was in desperate need of visiting a veterinarian to be treated for fleas and mites. Stevenson was amazed when he learned how long the frail cat had been missing from his original home in Rosemount. “The owners couldn’t believe it, but were absolutely over the moon,” he recalled. …
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