Dylan, the errant Canonmills tom whose unexplained disappearance sparked search parties along the Water of Leith and a poster campaign across half of north Edinburgh, has returned safe and sound.
After a two-week absence, he reappeared without explanation or apology on his owner's bed this morning and began purring.
She responded, we are told, with 'three big bowls of food and lots of cuddles'.
That'll learn him.