Carolyn Kiefer told Newsweek: "I was convinced it was a scam—someone preying on my elderly mother and her devotion to her cat."

Katherine Kiefer feared her cat Aggie was dead after she lost her home to the Los Angeles wildfires in January. The 82-year-old was reunited with Aggie two months later after the cat was found alive near the ruins of the family’s home.