US family reunited with pet cat seven years after it was lost: ‘We always thought about him’

Amber Davidson-Orozco said the family had lost Dodger, their cat, during their move out of California

A family cat who got lost amid a move from California across the US is said to be settling back into his old ways with his humans at their new home in Georgia after experiencing an unlikely - but long hoped for - reunion more than seven years in the making.

As owner Amber Davidson-Orozco put in an interview Wednesday, her cat Dodger still responds to his name and allows her sons to flip him playfully over their shoulders despite an absence from them that to the cat lasted the equivalent of roughly 24 years.