cat custody battle. woman tracks down lost cat 7 years later. current owner won't give him up

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He’s 10 years old, and his two moms are fighting over who he should live with. One is a Fairfield woman who once bottle-fed him, the other a retired nurse in Kenwood who has taken care of him for more than five years.

Also, he’s a cat.




What sounds like a custody case is actually a bizarre ownership battle over a shorthair tuxedo cat named David — or Whiley, depending on who you ask.
The two women are asking a Sonoma County court to decide who should legally possess the feline after he went missing, and was adopted, before the original owner tracked him down via his injected microchip seven long years later.
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The search for feline began after he wandered away from his Fairfield home in 2007, when he was 2. Reifler said her client had just moved to the area, so David likely didn’t know his way around.

Distressed, Mestas put up flyers around the Solano County, offered a $1,000 reward and volunteered at local animal shelters to keep an eye out for him.
After seven years of searching, she finally tracked him down last year with the help of the cat’s identification chip.

But Reifler said that when her client contacted Weczorek, she wouldn’t give him up. Mestas even drove to Weczorek’s house in Kenwood and asked to see her former companion — but Weczorek declined.


http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Whose-cat-is-that-Bay-Area-women-square-off-in-6391216.php

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