The miracle of Sookie, the cat who came back

Published 3:29 pm Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Last week, Keri and Ed Lago received a strange call. It was call that was confusing and then miraculous. The lady on the other line asked the Lagos if they were missing a cat.

They said no, they were not, but the woman insisted that the cat had a microchip connecting the feline to their phone number.

That is when Keri and Ed told her that they had lost a cat, but it had been four years ago.

In 2000, they picked out a grey kitten at the Orcas Animal Shelter. After only a  few months, the cat, named Sookie, went missing.

“We thought maybe she was taken by an eagle or something,” Keri said.

The Lagos’ three children were upset, but in the following years they all moved past it.

After the unbelievable phone call came in, Keri decided they had to get their cat back. Plus the kids were excited by the news that Sookie was alive.

The only problem was that the woman had found Sookie at a campsite in central Oregon more than 360 miles away.

“This was such an unexpected surprise for our family,” said Keri. “There were 101 reasons why we probably should not have gone to get her but something told me to go, so we did.”

Keri, Ed and their daughter Alana all loaded into the car and made a weekend trip to Oregon.

“We are so grateful to our new friends in Oregon and very happy to have her back,” said Keri, who is also grateful that the cat was microchipped and urges other people to make that investment with their pets.

“She was meant to be in our family,” she said.