REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, SYDNEY -- A routine check-up on a stray cat in Northern Ireland has become an international mystery after it was discovered the feline was from Sydney.

Staff at the Cats Protection welfare center in Armagh near Belfast, checked the cat's microchip and were stunned to learn the ginger cat had been microchipped in Sydney in 2000 -- more than 17, 000 km away.

The microchip also contained his birthdate -- 1989 -- making him 25-years-old, extremely old for a cat.

Further investigations discovered the traveler cat they named Ozzie had also turned up at vet in London more than a decade ago.

Since the organization posted the story on their website on Wednesday night in the hope of finding his owners, it has been shared more than 10,000 times and attracted more than 2,500 comments from around the world.

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