7 March 2014 Last updated at 07:09 ET
BBC.com
Jesse’s owners say they never gave up hope of seeing him again
A cat has been reunited with his owners, eight years after going missing.
Jesse, a ginger and white cat, ran away from his owners, who live near the Staffordshire-Cheshire border, in May 2006 during a trip to the vet.
However, on 28 February the vet rang Jesse’s owner, Lesley Corbett, from Mow Cop, to say her cat had returned.
Mrs Corbett said she had no idea where Jesse had been for eight years but added she had never given up hope.
She said Jesse had disappeared during a routine visit to the vet, in Congleton, when he was 18 months old.
“He hurled himself at the front of the cat box and broke the door off,” she said.
“He was last seen heading off up by the side of the vet’s and running hell for leather.”