How a cat was returned to a Waterford woman after getting lost on trip home from Florida

WATERFORD, Mich. – A cat was reunited together with his proprietor in Waterford on Friday after a stranger discovered him in Tennessee and drove over 11 hours to deliver him residence.

Tucker, a tuxedo cat who enjoys vacationing in Florida, has been on fairly a journey after he was misplaced in one other state.

On their approach residence from Florida, Tucker went lacking from a resort in Southern Tennesee and his proprietor, Jamie McCall, needed to proceed on to Waterford with out him.

It had been weeks since he was first misplaced, however on Friday, he returned residence for the vacations all as a result of a stranger was prepared to drive simply over 600 miles.

Jamie McCall, Tucker’s proprietor, couldn’t comprise her pleasure as James “Hurricane” Heathfield pulled into her driveway.

Heathfield drove 11 and a half hours from Cleveland, Tennessee, to return Tucker to his proprietor in Waterford.

“Are you Tucker’s mother?” he mentioned as he acquired out of the automobile.

This was a second McCall had been ready weeks for.

“Thanks a lot, you don’t know the way a lot this implies to me,” she mentioned with Tucker in her arms for the primary time since he was misplaced.

Over the summer season, Jamie drove to Florida with Tucker. In early November on her approach again to Waterford she stopped at a resort in Cleveland, Tennesee, which is when Tucker went lacking.

“I searched the woods behind there and went via the neighborhood,” she mentioned.

“Properly, it’s a busy highway and that’s why she (Heathfield’s granddaughter, Holly) was anxious about him,” Heathfield defined.

“Properly it’s superb he didn’t get run over,” McCall mentioned. “Trigger I initially went on the market to see if he was within the highway.”

When she couldn’t discover Tucker, she turned to social media, pleading for assist. Inside one hour a lady from Tennesee responded saying she had discovered Tucker.

“To search out out that he had been taken in and cared for by any person so beautiful as your granddaughter, I imply,” Jamie mentioned.

Holly stored Tucker secure till her grandfather may drive as much as deliver him residence.

“I’m simply actually completely happy, and you understand, it’s Christmas time, and proper now with the best way the world is, to see one thing like this, you understand, it warms my coronary heart,” Heathfield mentioned.

James, often known as “Hurricane”, is a tour bus driver and says he’s used to lengthy highway journeys.

“I imply who would soak up a cat, and deal with it, after which return it to you lots of of miles away? It’s overwhelming for me,” Jamie mentioned.