Greendale Mom Reunites Lost Cat With Owner

Update: Amy Chapman told Patch that the lost cat was reunited with her owner.

GREENDALE, WI — A Greendale mother has a new houseguest of the four-legged variety, and she's hoping to track down her owner.

Amy Chapman told Patch that her children were outside playing on Hill Ridge Drive Tuesday just before dinner when an unusually friendly black-and-gray cat walked up to them. They didn't see the cat's owner, so they picked the feline up and brought her home.

"When they brought her home, they put her down outside, and she came right up to me," Chapman said. "I brought her in. I called Greendale police, but they didn't have a report of a female cat missing."

The next day, she brought the friendly cat to the local veterinarian to see whether she had an embedded microchip that contained information about the owner, or shelter where she was found.

For Chapman, the news was both good and bad. She learned that the friendly cat had been adopted in 2016 from Community Cat, Inc. in Whitewater. Unfortunately, the microchip data had not been updated by the cat's owner, revealing no new information.

"In the front she looks like a tabby, but she really looks like a tortie," Chapman said, referring to the Tortoiseshell cat breed. "Torties are usually black and brown, but she is gray and brown."

As a lifelong pet owner, and the current owner of two cats and two dogs that get along well together under one roof, Chapman said she is going to take care of her new friendly cat until her owner comes forward.

She has put messages out on social media to try and track down the cat's owner, but has so far there haven't been any takers.

"I would only hope that if one of mine was lost, that somebody would do the same," she said.