Cat Missing for 13 Years Reunited with Owner After Mysteriously Vanishing On 4/30/21 at 12:22 PM EDT After a long 13 years without their beloved cat, a family is thrilled that she has finally returned home. Gemma Barbieri of Norfolk in the United Kingdom told The Evening Standard that she and her daughter Alicia thought they had lost their beloved black cat Rose for good when she vanished in 2008 without a trace. They looked for weeks to no avail and eventually were forced to move on. Fortunately, Rose had been microchipped when she was initially adopted as part of Alicia's eighth birthday present. Earlier this year, she was taken in as a stray by the Cats Protection's Downham Market Adoption Centre.