A missing kitten has been finally reunited with her owner sixteen years after vanishing from the backyard.
Sunshine disappeared from owner Carl Pullen’s garden in 2009 when she was around three-years-old.
Carl presumed the pedigree Bengal cat was stolen because the breed can be sold for many hundreds of dollars in England—and she was never recovered despite extensive searching.
Reluctantly, he moved away from his home in Hertfordshire the following year.
“I’d always figured she’d been stolen. I put up posters, appealed to find her, and she was microchipped,” said the 51-year-old. “It’s a good thing I never changed my phone number in all these years.”
Last week, he got the shocking…