Overview
- Bindi disappeared from her home in Haddenham, Cambridgeshire, in August 2020 during the Covid lockdown.
- Owner Jilly Fretwell received a call from vets on Thursday, December 18, 2025, confirming the identification.
- A woman handed the black cat in at the Witchford practice, where staff scanned the microchip and located the registered owner.
- Vets reported Bindi in good health and well cared for, and she was said to recognize her family immediately on pickup.
- The family does not know where Bindi lived during the five years away and now urges other pet owners to microchip their animals.