{"id":100023,"date":"2021-02-25T14:33:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T22:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=100023"},"modified":"2021-02-25T14:41:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T22:41:11","slug":"pet-lost-for-15-years-found-in-palmdale-returned-to-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2021\/02\/25\/pet-lost-for-15-years-found-in-palmdale-returned-to-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"Pet lost for 15 years found in Palmdale, reunited with owner"},"content":{"rendered":"

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[Left] Charles and Brandy [Right] Brandy then and now (Contributed)<\/figcaption><\/figure>PALMDALE – A pet cat that went missing 15 years ago was found in Palmdale this week and reunited with its owner, thanks to microchip and the diligence of an animal care officer. The Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control shared the good news in a press release issued Thursday. Read it below:<\/p>\n

On Feb. 21, 2021, Officer Luis Leal <\/strong>from the Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control received a field call to assist an injured stray cat on the front porch of a Palmdale residence. Officer Leal immediately responded and brought the cat back to the Palmdale Animal Care Center where she was cared for and despite her injury, she was found very alert, healthy, happy and friendly, interacting very well with the staff.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, Officer Leal scanned the cat and was able to locate a microchip! The microchip traced back to a gentleman named Charles. Initially, Officer Leal made an attempt to contact the owner but was unsuccessful. As a result, Officer Leal left a message for Charles<\/strong> that his cat was found and is being cared for at the Palmdale animal care center.<\/p>\n

On Feb. 22, 2021, Charles called back and spoke with Sergeant Valles at the Palmdale animal care center. Charles was very confused and asked why he was receiving a call from animal control because he does not own any pets. Then, Sergeant Valles advised him that a cat was found in the City of Palmdale and her microchip information was linked back him.<\/p>\n

Charles was completely shocked to hear that his cat \u201cBrandy\u201d<\/strong> was located as he had not seen her in over 15 years. He was so happy you could hear it in his voice over the phone. Charles was very emotional and continued sharing with Sergeant Valles that \u201cBrandy\u201d went missing over 15 years ago and he never thought he would see her again.<\/p>\n

Sergeant Valles then asked Charles if he was interested in picking up \u201cBrandy\u201d and taking her home. His reply was \u201cyes, adoption is forever\u201d.<\/p>\n

Charles was very pleased to hear that \u201cBrandy\u201d was alive, alert and in overall good health. When Charles arrived at the Palmdale animal care center, he was greeted and directed by Palmdale’s compassionate and friendly care center staff to spend time with \u201cBrandy\u201d in the \u201cMeet Your Kitty\u201d room. Once reunited with \u201cBrandy\u201d there was an instant connection that appeared to be unbroken even though Charles and \u201cBrandy\u201d only shared a few months before being separated for so long.<\/p>\n

It was wonderful to see the beautiful reunion! DACC encourages all pet owners to microchip their pets because without the microchipping of \u201cBrandy\u201d and the diligence of the officer, this reunion would have been impossible.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PALMDALE – A pet cat that went missing 15 years ago was found in Palmdale this week and reunited with its owner, thanks to microchip and the diligence of an animal care officer. The Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control shared the good news in a press release issued Thursday. Read it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}