--- title: Woman Finds Cat 6 Months After He Was Lost During a Fire description: A San Francisco woman has been reunited with her missing cat six months after she was forced to evacuate her home. canonical: https://time.com/4278521/woman-finds-missing-cat-6-months-after-fire/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-31T21:24:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:31:18.283Z og:title: Woman Finds Missing Cat 6 Months After He Was Lost During a Fire og:description: She spotted him on a street near her house og:url: https://time.com/4278521/woman-finds-missing-cat-6-months-after-fire/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Woman Finds Missing Cat 6 Months After He Was Lost During a Fire twitter:description: She spotted him on a street near her house twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Woman Finds Missing Cat 6 Months After He Was Lost During a Fire  by [Megan McCluskey](/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 31, 2016 9:24 PM CUT  by [Megan McCluskey](/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 31, 2016 9:24 PM CUT A San Francisco woman has been [reunited](http://time.com/4183204/boy-reunites-with-dog/ "undefined") with her [missing](http://time.com/3973782/lost-dog-indiana-arizona-1800-miles/ "undefined") cat six months after she was forced to evacuate her home due to an encroaching wildfire. Middletown Animal Hospital shared the story of Nancy and her cat Muscat on Facebook on Tuesday, explaining that the two were separated during the [Valley fire](http://abc7news.com/news/massive-valley-fire-spreads-to-3-north-bay-counties-/983379/ "undefined") that engulfed large swaths of northern California in September. They’ve been back together since Nancy spotted her pet on the street on March 23\. “She was driving close to her house and saw a cat that looked like Muscat so she stopped and he came to her,” the hospital wrote. **Read More:** [Dog Found Alive After Being Lost at Sea for 5 Weeks](http://time.com/4263400/dog-found-alive-lost-at-sea-5-weeks/ "undefined") Teresa Axthelm, an employee of the animal hospital, told [KCBS](http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/03/31/valley-fire-cat-woman-reunite-lake-county-middletown/ "undefined") that the reunion is an optimistic sign for others whose [pets are still missing](http://time.com/4272134/missing-dog-family-reunited/ "undefined"). “So many people are still looking for their pets,” she said. “Missing pets, dogs and cats. To give anybody some hope, it’s obviously a great thing.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4278521/woman-finds-missing-cat-6-months-after-fire/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4278521/woman-finds-missing-cat-6-months-after-fire/"},"headline":"Woman Finds Missing Cat 6 Months After He Was Lost During a Fire","datePublished":"2016-03-31T21:24:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:31:18.283Z","description":"She spotted him on a street near her house","url":"https://time.com/4278521/woman-finds-missing-cat-6-months-after-fire/","keywords":["Newsfeed","California","animals","Pets","cats","San Francisco"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4278521/woman-finds-missing-cat-6-months-after-fire/","name":"Woman Finds Missing Cat 6 Months After He Was Lost During a Fire"}}]}] ```