When Jan Ford found a missing moggy on a garage forecourt, she was amazed to find it might have travelled hundreds of miles to get there.
The black cat, which turned up at the Jet filling station, in Lawrence Street, York, late on Friday night, was sporting an identity disc which bore a phone number for Newport-on-Tay, in Scotland.
Jan, customer service manager at the Mecca bingo hall, in Fishergate, took the cat home after calling in for petrol.
When she found the number for the cat's owners, she thought it may have somehow hitched a ride on a vehicle and ended up stranded far from home.
She tried calling the number but kept getting an answer machine.
Eventually, however, the riddle was solved when the cat's owner, who is working temporarily in York, called home and got the message.
She and the cat, which had only wandered from nearby Green Dykes Lane, were soon reunited.
Updated: 11:21 Tuesday, April 03, 2001
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