After Six Years Spent Living As A Stray, This Missing Cat Recognized A Face From Her Past

after six years spent living as a stray this missing cat recognized a face from her past [Music] in 2018 a family in Carmel Indiana found a scared black cat living under their shed they started feeding her and their neighbors shared a picture of her online to help reconnect her with her owner little did they know the feline had been on the streets for six years and she'd soon recognized someone from her life long ago once upon a time Julie the black cat had been a pampered feline Indiana resident John Gullah adopted Julie and her brother Jack the pair of pets were her close Gullit old current they used to cuddle he recalled they were two peas in a pod but in 2012 the feline siblings would be unexpectedly separated early that year Julie was at Gulley's mother's home in Carmel Indiana while Gullah was at college and somehow Julie got out of the abode understandably Gulley's mother Lauren de Roberts said she felt terrible that the cat had escaped under her watch she just ran and I couldn't find her I was just beside myself she recalled to current and upon noticing the cat was missing she went on a search of the nearby area but found nothing Roberts and her son hung fliers throughout the neighborhood but they never heard anything about Julie's whereabouts nonetheless Roberts continued to look for the cat but then she received some scary news about her son's health just after Julie's disappearance doctors told Gullah that he had lymphoma and from that point on Roberts admitted that her search for Julie was placed on the back burner while her son battled cancer still the mom said she always held out hope that Julie would return home every once in a while you find that needle in a haystack she stated I was looking for a needle not a piece of hay in Julie's absence life went on for both Roberts and her son over the course of six years Gullah beat his cancer diagnosis tied the knot with his girlfriend and nabbed a new job he ended up settling in Indianapolis with his wife but in spite of all the changes in son's life Roberts still believed that maybe there was a 1% chance of Julie ever coming back and in 2018 when she happened to see an online post about a found cat she couldn't help but wonder if she'd finally landed upon that sliver of hope the post on paw boost Lost and Found pets described a cat similar to Julie a family had found a stray black cat under their shed they said the feline was an older adult and that it appeared nervous of course these were qualities likely shared by plenty of straights and so Roberts wasn't entirely convinced that the cat was Julie after all there was no mention of her identifying feature a patch of white fur on her belly nonetheless her son went to the family's home in Carmel just in case as roberts recalled he won and saw her and saw the little spot on her belly then the cat moved towards kala although the family reported that the stray cat was too skittish to come near them Roberts said she went right to Gullah she started purring and that was the start of what became an amazing reunion the woman who had originally posted about the found cat Christine McKeon was taken aback by the touching reunion Gullah called her name and she came out and she came right to him she said according to McKeon Julie wasn't that friendly to anyone in the time she lived under the shed and although she was a stray when he found her Gullah later revealed that it seemed as though someone had taken in the cat at least for some time someone must have taken care of her her fur was soft there's a problem with her tail but it doesn't look like she's banged up or anything Bella said and in indiana's cold winter climate that care could very well have saved Julie's life I'm wondering about what angel cared for her at some point because we've had some rough winters Gullah said fortunately it would be him who would care for her from then on he took Julie home after finding her that day the last thing to do was to reintroduce Julie to her feline brother Jack but Gullah couldn't do that right away a vet had to give her the all-clear before the cats could be reintroduced in the meantime Billa quarantined her at his house as he settled back into life with his long-lost cat gullet old fox59 it was just crazy to have Julie home again it's almost like seeing a ghost or something he added for many who read about Julie's return the tale gave them both happiness and hope readers also felt gracious for those who had looked after Julie along the way commenter Roseanne wrote the biggest thank-you to the amazing people who took care of Julie she was so fortunate to have found loving people who cared about a little black stray and furthermore the cat was lucky to still have people at home who loved her and happily took her back after six long years