After going missing during the Black Summer bushfires, Tank the cat has finally returned to his family after being found 14km away, malnourished and injured — but alive.
A NSW South Coast family has been joyfully reunited with their cat after he fled the family home as bushfires threatened their community.He had wandered 14km from his home, but was found aliveAmid the chaos of the Black Summer bushfires in January, which destroyed homes to the north, south and west of Narooma, five-year-old Tank ran away.
Ms Taylor thinks Tank went missing around New Year's Eve from her Narooma home, as fire burned homes and took lives in nearby Cobargo."We were just so frightened — everyone was saying they wanted us to go to the evacuation centre in town but it was just so small." "After he didn't come back for three or four weeks I thought, he's not going to come back now," she said.Tank fled as fires threatened Narooma and was missing for five months.
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