There were plenty of tears, the good kind, on Thursday as B.C. cat owner Chelsea Turner basked in waves of “unspeakable joy.”

That’s because she was reunited with her lost companion, Buddha, an astonishing six years after her furry feline friend disappeared.

“Seeing him now and being with him now is surreal. It’s absolutely surreal,” she told Global News.

“This guy has got to have way more than nine. He has lived at least 1,000 lives. What is it, Buddha is reincarnated forever?”

Turner now lives in Victoria, but the story started when she lived in Kelowna’s Rutland neighbourhood.

“I remember the last time I saw him he was sitting on the front lawn, it was a beautiful day, and I stopped the car because I was on the way to work and I was like, oh, I should put him inside, and I thought,

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