That must have been the best feeling ever when he came back, loosing a pet is hard but if it comes back it's probably the complete opposite.
You got lucky that day.
I was on the other side of this. Our cat was hit by a car, some woman was crying over him thinking it was her cat. Our cat never came home so hopefully that woman's cat did.
Our big cat disappeared once after we moved, and we roamed the neighborhood for hours searching for him. I finally spotted him in someone's side yard, just chilling on their trash bins, his collar missing. My partner was getting tired and had already headed home, only to call me just before I trespassed onto their property to inform me that the cat was waiting for us just inside the door.
The one to the left has a white ares that gore across its chest where ad the cat to the right has a batch that is isolated.
Makes it kind of hard to miss that it's not the same cat. To me it looks like a picture of someone's cats that a random user is trying to make internet points out of
My sister had this, they thought the cat was behaving a bit weird, but thought it was from being lost for a week. But it turned out it was their cats brother who lived in the same village.
I own 3 cats and feel like I could tell which one was mine between two identical cats. There's a special feeling when you see your cat. I can tell my cats on my security cameras from other neighborhood cats that look similar.
When my aunt is on a holiday I feed her cats. One of them is a tortie. Unlike their reputation it's one of the sweetest cats I know, probably because she associates me with food.
One time when I went to feed them, I thought I saw her outside. It was weird since I had just seen her go upstairs. I went outside and saw it wasn't her. She had other face markings.
Some say torties have a special attitude (tortitude) and that they bite, scratch and hiss more easily. My aunt says the tortie is more temperamental than her other cats. I haven't experienced this since she is always sweet to me.