A microchip and lost report helped the Fairfax County Animal Shelter reunite Spencer with his family.
FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. — A cat named Spencer was reunited with his family more than two years after going missing, the Fairfax County Animal Shelter said Monday.
Spencer disappeared in June 2023. His family filed a lost report with the shelter and looked for him everywhere. The shelter said his family even hired search dogs to look for him, but they weren’t able to find him.
But then last week, Spencer arrived at the shelter. Animal services were able to scan his microchip and match him with the lost report filed for him. They saw that the information was a match and reached out to his family.
When Spencer’s family got to the shelter, both he and his family immediately recognized each other, the shelter said. According to them, his dad shouted, “That’s him! That’s our Spencer,” as soon as he saw the cat.
Spencer was just as excited to see them, it seems. One staff member remarked that they had never seen Spencer so lively as he was when he was with his family. He returned home with them that same day.
The shelter said it doesn’t know where Spencer has been for the past two years, but said his microchip was invaluable to reuniting them.
Fairfax County Animal Shelter has bi-monthly vaccine and microchip clinics. The dates and information about the clinics are available online here.
If your pet is missing, or if you have found a pet, file a report online here.