These cats are beautiful, I have one myself. However, in saying this you must have a GREAT love of them to be a dedicated owner as they require a HUGE amount of grooming and attention. If not they become matted beyond repair and worse than that very sick from all the fur they end up swallowing. Maybe the nurse herself got 'sick' of all the work involved with a cat such as this?? How selfish of her to just keep it without going straight to a vet to check the microchip... I feel so bad for the young girl and her mother they must have been heartbroken for all that time not knowing what had happened to their beloved pet...

Hmmmm. Wonder if the woman who 'found' the cat ever visited Tasmania, maybe the answer to how the poor little thing crossed the Ocean may lie there :) Maybe she should stick to humans .... (Dunno that I'd want to be a patient of hers though!)