Pamela Edwards had adopted black, short-haired Cheyenne in the summer of 1997. Just a few months later, Cheyenne disappeared.
Edwards put up flyers and ran ads in the local paper to try to locate the cat, but had no luck.
Earlier this month, she received a call from her local shelter: Cheyenne had been found, in San Francisco.
"I figured, there's no way that's my Cheyenne," Edwards said. "I told them, 'I had a cat named Cheyenne, but I've never
lived in San Francisco.' "
Cheyenne was dropped off April 1 at Animal Care and Control by someone who found her wandering down a street. When workers
found out she had been lost in Florida seven years ago, they wondered if it was a joke.
"Maybe she came here on vacation because she wanted to see the wine country, and decided to stick around because it's not
so muggy," said Deb Campbell, spokeswoman for Animal Care and Control.
Animal officials think a former neighbor of Edwards' probably found the cat, decided to keep her and then moved to San
Francisco.
They're trying to find a way to return Cheyenne, who is now 10 years old, to Edwards. The agency can't afford to ship her
to Florida, so workers there have been searching for a traveler to carry her on a plane trip.
Copyright 2004 The Associated Press.
