Hussein Sharaf has been reunited with his five-month-old cat Bruno
ENGLAND - A kitten which was flung from a car in a motorway crash has now been reunited with its owner after a public appeal.
Hussein Sharaf’s car overturned on the M4 just two weeks ago and five-month-old Bruno was thrown into the road.
The 22-year-old said he had lost all hope of finding his pet after an initial search proved fruitless.
However, the pair have now been reunited thanks to determined volunteers from social media groups and pet websites.
The tabby-Bengal mix was spotted by a member of the general public on Wednesday right next to the motorway in Wiltshire.
Bruno was said to be “hungry but OK”.
Bruno was “hungry but OK” after his motorway crash ordeal
Mr Sharaf’s car crashed into the central reservation nearby to Royal Wootton Bassett, launching the cat carrier into the middle lane of the motorway.
A policeman told the software developer that he had witnessed the animal “flee in fear”.
Following his release from hospital, Mr Sharaf was joined by members of ‘lost and found’ websites and Facebook groups in the search for the missing cat.
However, he said it was “like searching for a needle in a haystack” and he reluctantly ended up returning to his home in London.
Mr Sharaf’s car hit the central reservation and overturned, flinging his cat carrier out of a broken window
However, the volunteers continued the search and put up posters until Bruno was spotted 12 days later by motorist Lee Palmer.
“I’d been looking out for him daily on my journey home… and managed to stop and coax him towards me,” he stated.
“I got him home and fed him as he was skin and bone as he’d clearly not been eating.”
Mr Sharaf then added: “It just goes to show that there are such amazing people in this world.
“Not just Lee but all the lovely volunteers who went out looking for him.”
