Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe MUSKEGON, Mich., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- A cat that went missing three years ago has been found apparently no worse for the wear, its owner said. Terri Essex was in New Mexico when she received a call from her house sitter that her cat, Harrison, had escaped and couldn't be found, the Grand Haven (Mich.) Tribune reported. Advertisement Essex said she did everything she could to find Harrison after she returned home to Muskegon. "We looked, we checked all the shelters, we ran ads in the paper," she said. The Harbor Humane Society caught a cat in a trap in Spring Lake Township this week and brought it to the Ottawa County Sheriff's Department Animal Control, where it was checked for a microchip. The cat was Harrison, and officials said they are surprised it survived so long as a stray, especially because its front claws were removed. "It's unbelievable," Essex said, as she held her cat for the first time in three years. She wasn't the only one who found it incredible. "For him to be alive after three years, especially being front-declawed, is pretty amazing," said Jill Bannink-Albrecht, the front office supervisor of Harbor Humane Society. Advertisement
