Cat Missing for Weeks Reunites with Family After Being Found 10 Miles Away at Boston Airport

Mar. 15, 2025

Cat Missing for 3 Weeks Reunites with Family After Being Found 10 Miles Away at Boston Airport.Photo:CBS Boston/YouTube

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A cat missing from his Boston area home for weeks has been reunited with his family — after he was found nearly 10 miles away in an airport garage.

The Animal Rescue League of Boston (ARL)announcedin a press release that it had reunited an 8-year-old male cat named Harry with his owners using his microchip on Thursday, Aug. 15, after he was found at Logan International Airport.

Harry’s owner, Christine Lafleur, toldCBS Bostonthat the 8-year-old feline had been missing from her family’s home in Somerville, Mass. since late July.

“He went missing July 19th, and he’s been gone since then, and we have looked everywhere in the neighborhood for him, and we’ve put up lots of signs,” Lafleur told the outlet,

According to Lafleur, Harry is an indoor cat, and he must have found a way to sneak out of the house.

“He doesn’t go out, so he found an escape hatch of some kind,” she added to CBS.

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The ARL said that a veterinarian got right to work giving Harry an exam and scanned him for microchips — and Lafleur’s contact information came up.

“We got a call from the Animal Rescue League of Boston — he’d been found at Logan Airport in a garage,” she recalled,

Logan International Airport in Boston.Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty

Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty

Although Harry’s family (and his feline brother Ron) was pleased to know he had been found, they still had some questions about how he had made his way to the airport.

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“We were, like, happy and stunned at the same time. We really wish he could tell us how he got there, but he’s not giving it up!” Lafleur said, adding that they had one theory “He is pretty obsessed with boxes so he may have seen a box in the back of a delivery truck and jumped in and then took a little ride to Logan.”

“He went on this incredible adventure that we’ll unfortunately never know the details!” she added.

The ARL took Harry’s story and reunion with his family as an opportunity to remind pet owners about the benefits of microchipping pets.

“A microchip drastically increases the likelihood of being reunited should they become lost,” the organization wrote, “and ARL urges all pet owners to have their pets microchipped if they have not already done so.”

source: people.com