12/27/2025
Want to see a happy ending? Watch this short video.
Backstory below:
No one wants to be confronted with the reality that they might not ever see their pet again, especially on Christmas. That was the situation Christmas night when we received a call from a boarding facility regarding a cat that was last seen on camera around 4am Christmas morning. They searched all day without any signs of the cat. The owner found us online and decided to take a chance and call on Christmas, and thankfully he did!
We arrived about 40 minutes after the call and swept the interior of the facility using thermal looking for heat signatures of the cat. Once that was exhausted, we moved outside to scan the surrounding area. Eventually we moved along a tree line and about a quarter of a mile from the facility found a heat signature that looked like it was in the Y of a dead tree. We directed the team to that location and realized that the heat source wasn't sitting in the Y of the tree, but was actually in the hollow of the tree. You could have walked by this tree a hundred times and never saw the cat, but through the use of thermal imaging from a top down view, it lit up with enough temperature disparity to let us know something alive was there.
An hour and twenty minutes into our search, the cat was reunited with the owner, and they were happily on their way to the airport to head home. We love happy endings!
If your pet ever goes missing, reach out and we will help if we can.
