Owner’s joy as Siamese called Ashley is found in an Essex garage six days after the two-year-old cat ‘escaped through a bathroom window in North Wales and hitchhiked 280 miles across the country’
- Ashley the cat went missing from her home in North Wales on Good Friday
- The two-year-old Siamese is believed to have hitch hiked over to Essex
- Carol Monk found the cat in her garage and contacted an animal charity
- Pippa’s Army from Thurrock, Essex were able to contact Ashley’s onwers
A Siamese cat who escaped from his owner’s bathroom in North Wales was found a week later in Essex – more than 280 miles away.
Ashley, a two-year-old Siamese was last seen at her owner, Dan Worsley’s house in Glan Conwy, North Wales on Good Friday.
Mr Worsley and his wife Val feared the worst after their pet vanished and hadn’t been seen in a week.
Fortunately, the cat was recovered by an animal rescue charity in Thurrock, Essex.
Dan Worsley, pictured, drove from Glan Conwy in North Wales to Thurrock, Essex to collect his cat, Ashley who had vanished from home before emerging 280 miles away
Mr Worsley said he believed Ashley the cat, pictured, ‘hitch hiked’ her way to Essex
Ashley the cat managed to travel safely from Glan Conwy, in North Wales to Tilbury, Essex
Mr Worsley said: ‘We had left the bathroom window open and Ashley got stuck in the bathroom by accident, so we believe she jumped out.
‘When we noticed she was missing we launched a full scale search across our village
‘The whole village, 4,000 people, were out looking for her, but not a trace.
‘The longer it went the more distraught we got, we thought we would never see her again.
‘After a week, myself and my wife feared for the worse. We were heartbroken and devastated.’
It is not known how Ashley managed to cross from Wales into England and then travel across to Essex.
Mr and Mrs Worsley had printed posters which were put up around the village, with several members of the local community involved in an extensive, but unsuccessful search of the surrounding area.
Mr Worsley said Ashley was an indoors cat and feared that she would not be able to survive for long in the open.
Amazingly, they received a phone call from Karen Keeves of the Pippa’s Army animal rescue centre who said they had found Ashley.
He said: ‘When my wife received the phone call from Karen, she literally burst into tears. It had been a worrying, sleepless week but now she is home.’
Mr Worsley said he went on a 590-mile round trip to collect Ashley from the animal refuge.
According to the BBC, Ashley was discovered in the home of Carol Monk and her partner Allan Baker by their dog, Bobby.
They were alerted when Bobby was scratching on the door.
Ms Monk contacted Pippa’s Army who were able to scan Ashley and make contact with her relieved owners.
Mr Worsley believes Ashley may have hitch hiked across the country in a car.
He said he and his wife were ‘elated’ to have Ashley home, even though the cat ‘complained all the way to New port Pagnell services’.
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