A PET cat which nearly died after getting trapped in a neighbour’s attic for six weeks has finally made it home and safe.

Seven-year-old Darcey Groves, who goes to Combe School, was distraught when best friend five-year-old Boo went missing two weeks before Christmas.

For more than a month the family searched high and low for their missing moggy. She was eventually discovered in the attic of a neighbour’s house, barely clinging to life.

Now the puss is back at home, fighting fit, and seems a completely changed cat.

Darcey’s mum, Katharine Groves, said: “Boo seems to be a lot calmer now. Normally she would be hissing at our pet dog Bruce but they seem to be getting along really well now.”


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The 43-year-old added: “We realised two weeks before Christmas that she hadn’t been home for two nights which was just not like Boo.

“Christmas came and it was awful. Even the dog was upset, it was terrible.”

It was only at the end of January that a call out of the blue from Medivet, in Hensington Road, Woodstock, rang to say the walkabout moggy had been brought to them and had been closer to home than the Groves family had thought. Mrs Groves, of Stonesfield Road, Combe, said: “They said she was in a really bad way and had been found by the daughter of the elderly couple who live opposite us. She was a bag of bones.

Boo was treated with antibiotics and fluids but staff at Medivet were not hopeful. Zoe Bradley, 22, a student veterinary nurse who helped treat Boo said: “She was in a bad state.’’