Mary Ann Holland has seen more than a few cats over the years while operating a pet grooming business and doing cat rescue work, but she knew something was different when a friendly feline showed up at her home last summer.
“I’ve done a ton of rescue work,” said the owner of K-9 Klips in Wallaceburg. “So, I wondered when I started feeding her I thought ‘Wow, you’re friendly’.”
When Holland took the cat with the beautiful dilute tortoise shell coat to the Wallaceburg Animal Hospital to have a microchip checked, she learned the feline came from an animal rescue operation in British Columbia that is no longer operating.
“It’s a mystery,” she said. “How did that cat get here from BC?”
Holland has been asking around her neighborhood but can’t find anyone who knows anything about the cat she’s named ‘BC’.
She said there is a lot of “scenarios” on how BC arrived in Wallaceburg. One would have it as the pet of someone who moved here. Another would have it as a stowaway in a moving van or other vehicle.
The cat has been spayed and is about three or four years old.
“She’s got to be somebody’s cat, somebody’s got to miss that cat,” Holland said.
If BC isn’t claimed by anyone, Holland said she will be glad to place her with someone.
She can be reached at 519-627-9855.