A cat in Portland, missing for five years, reunited with owner Viktor Usov after being found nearly 2,000 km away.

Viktor Usov, from Portland, Oregon, remembers the lost cat Sasha for the past five years and thinks the worst has happened to him, until he gets a call from New Mexico.

The so-called Santa Fe Animal Protection Center employee, announces that they found a 6-year-old cat, which has long black fur and believes it is Usov's cat.

"It can't be," he exclaimed. "That can't be my cat. Maybe there's a mistake in the system."

Murad Kirdar, a public relations officer at the Santa Fe Animal Protection Center, said on November 18 that they found the cat wandering on the street without a collar should be taken back to the camp. Here, they used a scanner to check the microchip, the size of a grain of rice, implanted under Sasha's skin. The microchip has given the animal's identification code and owner contact information.

Usov did not understand how his cat could get lost from Portland to Santa Fe. "I think it was a great adventure across America," he said.

Because she was attending a medical school, Usov could not go to New Mexico to welcome Sasha. Kirdar decided to buy a plane ticket and brought the cat back to Usov on November 19.

Usov adopted Sasha from a humanitarian center about 6 years ago. He thought that this was the most fierce looking cat but then they loved each other and always went everywhere together. It went missing after going out at night in 2014.

Usov was happy to see Sasha again. "I will take him home and love him. I am very happy," he said.