A “miracle” cat missing for five weeks was found still alive underneath a neighbor’s floorboards.
The Russian blue’s overjoyed owners believe he narrowly survived by eating spiders and bugs and licking condensation from pipes.
Arthur lost half his bodyweight while trapped in the English home, and he was only discovered when the neighbors heard distressed mewing and pulled up the floorboards.
For over a month, his owner Jo Rymill knocked on doors, stuck flyers to lamp posts, and posted on social media—never expecting she would find her missing pet just three doors down.
After five weeks of searching, the owner of an AirBnb who had recently renovated the home, posted a message on the neighborhood chat saying the tenants in her property heard a mewing beneath the floor.
Within 12 minutes nearby residents in Ramsgate, Kent, descended on the property and ripped up the floorboards to rescue frail and dehydrated Arthur.
Ms. Rymill was in line for popcorn at the cinema with her husband when the news came through.
“We jumped in the car and raced home,” she recalled. “They started sending pictures and on the way home I was saying ‘OMG! It’s him! It’s him!’
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“I thought after five weeks there’s no way he would have survived that because, logically, how could he? The first thing I did was burst into tears.
“I came out and all the neighbors were standing there holding him and it was the most amazing feeling. I still can’t believe he’s with us.”
She said their four-year-old kitty used up more than one of his nine lives after disappearing from their house on June 8.
The dirt-covered moggy was rushed to an emergency vet and spent 24 hours on a drip, while the 55-year-old feared he wouldn’t make it through the night.
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Describing Arthur’s hospital stint, she said: “At the start, we were really worried his kidneys would have gone.
“The first round of blood tests on Friday night wasn’t very good, but the next day they settled out. It’s more than a miracle – nobody can believe he survived for five weeks.
“This is the best street to live in…The message went out and everyone went ‘oh my God’ and descended.
“If we weren’t all so close, nobody would have known who to contact. The speed of getting him out is what saved him.”
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However, within half an hour he was reportedly purring and meowing to his owner.
“He has the most resilient personality,” said Mrs Rymill, who now reminds owners to make sure their pets’ microchips are up-to-date and to report them on the database if they disappear. (Watch the video about the rescue below…)
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