Nguhi went on to explain the situation further, telling her followers to “saddle in because this is a JOURNEY”.

After her cat, Panther, went missing, he turned up in a shelter in the next city, where he was adopted by a woman living in another city, who renamed him Charlie.

When Charlie’s new owner could no longer care for him, she passed him on to her parents – who just happened to be Nguhi’s next door neighbours.

It was then that she realised that Panther and Charlie were the same cat.

“Our neighbours were as flabbergasted as us and insisted we keep him because he was really ours,” she wrote. “We decided to give him back since he was comfortable there, and we already have a dog and cat. It was heartbreaking but I can’t even be sad because today was truly surreal”.

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