It was a sad day for Penny Scutt and her family when their beloved pet cat Tim went missing after hitching a ride to the tip.
But happy tears were shed on Sunday as after almost two months of him being gone, they were reunited.
The 4-year-old cat's owners were in the process of moving from their Otūmoetai property and did not notice there was a stowaway when they took some rubbish to the Maleme St Transfer Station.
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Scutt and the family had been searching for weeks and looked into all the reports and mentions of cats people had seen that looked like him.