Max’s story is poised to become the plot of a novel, if not a movie. He is a beautiful reddish cat with white paws and a spot that lived peacefully in Bucha, Ukraine. When the Ukrainian city is invaded by the Russians, its owner and daughter run away, but he stays there: the woman thought she had time to take her daughter to the relatives and return before the Russians got to her territory. But that was not the case and the ways of the people separate from those of the wonderful eight-year-old Maine Coon: while mother and daughter manage to arrive in the Czech Republic, he remains locked in the house.
When Russian troops entered the city, they broke into houses and took everything they could with them: from children’s toys to jewelry, from car batteries to electric scooters. And Max is taken along too: The imposing dimensions of the Maine Coon do not go unnoticed and probably some soldiers must have understood their value. From then on, nothing is known about what happened to him.
Until Max reappears in Belarus, about 300 kilometers from Bucha: The cat had escaped from a Russian armored vehicle in which electronic devices and household appliances had been stolen from Bucha’s apartments.
A woman found him who took him to a local animal rights organization. There, the helpers immediately noticed the medal that the cat wore around its neck: on one side the symbol of Batman, on the other the phone number of its owner. So 38 days after the separation, Max’s owner’s mobile phone rings: The cat lives and is in Gomel, the second most populous city in Belarus.
The cat was treated, shaved because the fur was all soiled with an oily substance, microchipped and documented. But the owner was no longer in Ukraine, but in the Czech Republic, and so this wonderful “machine” of volunteers was started, who first took them from Belarus to Poland, and then from there to the Czech Republic, where he was finally again able to hug its owner. An odyssey that has lasted 80 days since their separation.
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