When Marco the cat went missing for 10 days, his owner, Danette Stewart assumed the worst.
Danette’s rescue cat of one and a half years disappeared on February 9.
“We searched, we cried, we called his name and we cried some more. But, no sign of Marco,” she said.
Marco was a tiny kitten when a friend of Danette’s found him in a storm water drain at the Port Edward taxi rank.
“He was screaming his head off in the drain. He was totally ignored by everyone until a friend, luckily, heard him and smashed the pipe open to rescue him,” she explained.
But on February 19, a heartbroken Danette was watching TV when she heard Marco calling her.
“He hopped in through the window, but he looked dreadful the poor little thing, skin and bone, covered in ticks and sores,” she said.
So, she cleaned Marco up and took him to veterinarian Dr Dave Watson the next day.
Dr Watson gave him an antibiotic, and suggested he may have had an empty tin of cat food stuck on his face, hence the wounds.
“Can you imagine that! You are starving and all you can smell is the food in that tin for 10 days. I’m so so grateful he’s home,” she said.
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