Merlin home after almost two years on the run

With petered out pads, Merlin the moggie finally ended a 20-month stint on the run – much to the delight of his owners. Showing little in the way of remorse after he was apprehended on Monday, the feline diva was soon soaking up the attention his lengthy disappearance had caused. Aside from sporting a slimmer figure, the 13-year-old cat had little else wrong apart from dirty white socks that had criss-crossed the happening hangouts of Lincoln, Canterbury. Owner Dorina Bochow-Palmer and husband Shane Palmer said Merlin slung his hook on March 30 last year, and left his parents with nothing except for an unopened bag of deluxe cat food. Merlin was found under the deck of a woman’s house, just 2 kilometres away.