Janet Dunbar adopted Clarke and his sister Scarlett in 2012; six weeks later Clarke ran away. She searched for years and eventually moved away, but "Clarke was always in our thoughts." Eleven years on, a vet in the Wirral called: they believed they had her cat, found just ten minutes from where he vanished. Janet drove straight there. "A microchip is the size of a grain of rice… it permanently identifies pets," Petlog noted — and Clarke was home.