'Cremated' cat Ted strolls home four days after his death | UK news

A woman who learned while on vacation that her beloved pet cat had drowned was stunned when a neighbor told her he had returned home.

Nicci Knight from Newby in North Yorkshire was on holiday in Turkey when her neighbours said her cat Ted had drowned in their pond.

Inconsolable, she arranged a funeral and cremation to take place in Turkey.

But four days after Ted was brought home in an urn, the cat strolled back into the family home.

Nicci told the BBC: “I had to break the news to my husband and our four children and we were all devastated because Ted is a great person and a much loved member of the family.”

The cat sitter called her after Ted came back through the cat flap – and Nicci couldn’t believe her eyes.

She added: “I had to get her to call me live on FaceTime so I could see that Ted was actually alive.”

The question remained: whose cat had Nicci paid £130 to have cremated?

She collected the urn upon her return to the UK and found that Heavenly Pets Crematorium had labelled it “Not Dead Ted”.

Vicki Crallan, the crematorium's manager, told the BBC the situation was bittersweet as there was probably a family somewhere missing their own pet.

She explained: “So we believe that this is indeed a stray cat, possibly a farm cat. We are relieved knowing that we have given her a nice send-off.”

Although Ted managed to keep one of his nine lives, he doesn't seem to notice his stroke of luck.

Nicci laughed, “He's totally clueless. We still see him wandering across the street toward the neighbor's garden, so we have to go and get him because we don't really want to throw him in the pond.”

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