PROSPECT HEIGHTS — Arthur the cat has found his way home.
A 2-year-old tabby made famous during the 2013 mayoral election after subway service was halted to rescue him and another cat from the tracks has returned to his Prospect Heights apartment after going missing for a month, his owners said.
“He is a few sizes smaller than when he left home, but our boy is unhurt, eating well and sleeping off his total exhaustion,” owners Katherine Lynn and Keith Lubeley announced on Facebook Thursday.
The couple thanked “each and every person” in the neighborhood who helped search for Arthur after he went missing on Nov. 20.
The cat is one of two kittens rescued from the B and Q train subway tracks in the summer of 2013. Their story became a tabloid sensation when mayoral candidate Joe Lhota at the time (and former MTA chairman) said he wouldn’t have stopped train service to save the cats, later named Arthur and August.
In response to the news that Arthur went missing last month, Lhota promised on Twitter "I don't have the kitten."
Another former mayoral candidate from that year, John Catsimatidis, offered a $1,000 reward to help find Arthur after he went missing.
To help find their cat, Lynn and Lubeley told DNAinfo they set humane traps to capture him and posted fliers around their Prospect Heights home to solicit help from neighbors. It’s unclear how Arthur got home, but, either way, it’s clear his humans are very happy to have him back.
“We can hardly believe our fortune to have had you all rooting for us and for Arthur,” the couple wrote. “Now ... time for a catnap.”
