<div><p>When Rowan Jones adopted a kitten named T-Shirt 11 years ago, he noticed his new pet's friendly personality right away. What he didn't realize was T-Shirt's friendliness would actually save his life.</p><p>"You could see even at that young age that he had a lot of personality," Jones told <a href="https://www.thedodo.com/cat-missing-11-years-2303370461.html">the Dodo</a>. "I actually had work drinks on as it was the last day of the working year, so I had to take him to the pub with me. He had no problems mingling with the people at the bar."</p><p>T-Shirt would often explore the Jones' neighborhood, even living with other families for a few days, but he wore a collar and always found his way back home. Then one day, he went missing.</p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Rowan-Jones3.jpg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Rowan-Jones3_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Rowan-Jones3_GH_content_650px.jpg 650w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img><figcaption class="op-vertical-center"><cite>Rowan Jones</cite></figcaption></figure></div><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><p></p><p>Like any good pet owner, Jones worried about what had happened to T-Shirt. But even though he was concerned, part of him still hoped that T-Shirt was living happily with a new family.</p><p>While no one knows exactly where T-Shirt went for the first seven years, he turned up four years ago in the same neighborhood he'd roamed when he was younger. </p><p>He survived off what he could scavenge and food shared by a few different families, and his vet says that T-Shirt was in incredible shape for a homeless cat. He was living pretty happily until he was hit by a car, but even this accident had a silver lining.</p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Rowan-Jones.jpg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Rowan-Jones_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Rowan-Jones_GH_content_650px.jpg 650w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img><figcaption class="op-vertical-center"><cite>Rowan Jones</cite></figcaption></figure></div><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><p></p><p>One of T-Shirt's new families took him to the vet, where they found a microchip under his skin that lead them to Jones. </p><p>While Jones couldn't believe his luck, he had another surprise in store. The other families that had looked after T-Shirt for years had come to visit him at the animal hospital. One, who spent the most time looking after the cat, even had his own name for Jones' pet: Keemo.</p><p>While he was happy to be reunited with his cat, Jones decided that after all these years apart "Keemo" would be happiest with a new owner. Jones split the bill for the cat's recovery with the new owner, and he plans to visit his old friend often.</p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Rowan-Jones-2.jpg" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img><figcaption class="op-vertical-center"><cite>Rowan Jones</cite></figcaption></figure></div><p>It's an almost unbelievable story, and if T-Shirt - or Keemo - wasn't so good at making friends it would have had a much sadder ending. Thankfully Keemo has at least a few of his 9 lives left.</p><p><strong>Do you think Jones made the right choice giving up his cat? Share this post and let us know!</strong></p><p></p><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p></div>