In 2012, Sarah lost track of her cat near Strasbourg. Against all expectations, they found each other 12 years later thanks to SPA in Colmar (Haut-Rhin), where he was gathered. An unexpected reunion full of emotions.
Batman has no superpowers, but he’s still the hero of an incredible and equally super story. After being reported missing in 2012 by his lover Sarah near Strasbourg, Batman the cat reappears. Against all odds. Twelve years later and 60 km further south. In Colmar more precisely, at the SPA shelter.
If he could talk, he would tell us about his life as a cat all the time when Sarah was no longer waiting for him. How, for example, he ended up at this lady’s house, where he lived with about ten other cats. A lady who doesn’t seem to care about their state of health. When the SPA investigator came to collect him and his companions in the accident, he was in a critical condition.
Maud, zookeeper at Colmar SPA, remembers the moment the cats arrived at the shelter in mid-May. “They were in catastrophic condition, all suffering from coryza and some had blood in their urine“. Batman, despite his advanced age, regains his strength and gets back on his feet pretty quickly. He could have continued to have a good life at the cattery, but fate would have it otherwise.
Two months after his arrival at SPA, something clicked that changed things. “We noticed in one photo a camouflaged tattoo behind his ear“, observes Maud. An alphanumeric tattoo, which alerts the SPA agents. Batman, meanwhile renamed Rosemary, finds his original name thanks to the i-cad website, which shows cats and dogs with tattoos, or at the same time he finds his age, 15 years old, and especially his mistress, Sarah.
SPA will contact her immediately via his Facebook page by attaching a picture of Batman. The answer is not long in coming, in return they receive a picture of the very young cat. A great moment of emotion follows. “She was crying on the phone, she was in shock, she couldn’t believe it“. In the middle of July, after twelve years of separation, it is finally the big day. The day of reunion.”It was very touching, they were both very happy, it went very well“.
The latest news is that Batman, who is very sociable, has quickly found his feet. In his new “home”, with his lifelong mistress, his retirement promises to be in the best of hands. Everything is fine with him. The Life of a Pasha.
