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Purr-fect! Lost LI cat found 3 years later

Charlene Lanigan holds her cat McGee at her

Photo credit: Barry Sloan | Charlene Lanigan holds her cat McGee at her home in East Islip. The 5-year-old feline was reunited with his owner almost 36 months to the day he went missing. (Feb. 2, 2013)

Three years.

McGee had been missing, and while Charlene Lanigan had stopped stuffing missing cat fliers into neighborhood mailboxes and quit leaving the doggy door open at night in case he came back, she never stopped searching for him.

"In December, I went on a bike ride with my granddaughters, and I told them to look for McGee," Lanigan, 64, said Saturday at her East Islip home. Only...

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