When devastating wildfires broke out in California’s wine country this October, Jenn Thompson felt a tug at her heart to adopt one of the hundreds of cats rescued from the ash.
“I was telling one of my friends out here, ‘I feel like I should adopt one of these cats,’ because there were so many,” said Thompson, of Longmont. “We lost a cat to cancer last spring and I’ve been telling my husband, ‘We have a vacancy.'”
Before she could think about it any longer, she received a call on Oct. 31.
Thompson’s cat, Pilot, who wandered away from the family’s then-home in Santa Rosa, Calif., in 2007, had been found in the rubble by a good Samaritan looking for her own cats a little more than a mile from where Pilot went missing all those years ago.
Pilot was badly burned and in extremely poor shape, but alive and in the care of the Northern California pet hospital where Thompson’s sister works. Vets had scanned the microchip inserted when he was a kitten and tracked down Thompson, who had since moved to Longmont.
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