15 June 2023
When the call came, and they said they had her cat, Patricia Duane could not believe it.
Lost in the midst of the 2017 wildfires, her brown tabby was ill-equipped for life on the streets, and Duane had long since given up hope of his survival.
An indoor cat accustomed to regular meals and a soft comforter, Ozzie had only four teeth when he went missing. A bad case of gum disease had required most of them to be extracted, so hunting was out of the question even if he’d had it in him — which Duane doubted.
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