An adventurous cat who went missing for four days has been reunited with its owners.
Mort was discovered under the bonnet of a car in Perthshire on Sunday 424 miles away from her registered address in Wales.
An Almondbank resident heard the ginger tabby’s plaintive cries and called the Scottish SPCA.
Staff at the charity’s rehoming centre in Petterden scanned her for a microchip, which gave an address in the Welsh town of Crickhowell but no contact number.
After spending hours trying to track down the cat’s owners, Scottish SPCA assistant manager Coreen Hill discovered Mort had not strayed as far afield as they had feared.
Rather than making the perilous journey from Wales to Scotland, the fearless moggy had travelled just over six miles from her new home in Scone.
Her owners, Suzie and Charlie Grant, moved to Perthshire in September along with their one-year-old son Charlie and second cat, Chief.
They had not got round to updating the address stored on the microchip, however.
Mrs Grant told The Courier how her husband had let their pets out for their daily perambulations before heading off to Wales for the weekend.
When her parents tried to call them back later that day, only Chief appeared.
“We just told them to keep an eye out for her because Mort doesn’t usually stray far from home,” she said.
“However, she didn’t come back on Saturday and they couldn’t find her on Sunday.
“When we came back home on Monday, we were concerned that she was lost. My little boy loves crawling around after the cats and he really missed her but luckily, we received a phone call from the Scottish SPCA to say they had her.”
After arriving back home, Mort was determined to head back outside but Mrs Grant revealed she was under house arrest for the time being.
Ms Hill said: “It’s always lovely when we have a happy ending and hopefully, this will highlight the importance of keeping microchip details up to date.”