Lost cat spotted on webcam by woman in US

[Marilyn. 340]

this is a cool story...

After seven months, Abbi and Darren Rendell had given up any hope of ever seeing their cat again.

Jerry the tabby had run away when the couple moved house from Staffordshire to Cornwall and it was feared he had got lost and died.

But then, thanks to the wonders of technology, Jerry was spotted - by a woman nearly 4,000 miles away in America.

Deb Wilgus, an avid Anglophile from Indiana, had regularly seen the two-year-old cat out and about in the middle of the night on a webcam outside the Claremont hotel in Polperro , Cornwall.

When she saw an appeal on the same website she immediately passed on the amazing news.

Now Mr and Mrs Rendell are staking out the hotel and are convinced they will find their long lost pet.

Mrs Rendell, 30, a barmaid, said: “About three weeks after we moved in Jerry decided to take himself off on a walkabout and we haven’t seen him since. I was so upset.

“I’d get up at two or three in the morning to try to find him but we heard nothing for seven months, even though I put up posters of him in every shop and pub in the village.

“Then out of the blue we got this message from a woman in America saying she had seen him and when I looked at the webcam picture I knew it was him instantly.

“I felt quite emotional when I saw him. I just couldn’t believe it and it’s definitely going to help us find him because he’s a creature of habit.

“Deb loves looking at the website because she thinks it’s so quaint here. She’d seen Jerry dozens of times - almost every day.”

Mrs Rednell left her “Lost cat!” message on the Polperro village forum on October 25 but it was not until April 12 that Deb replied saying she had seen Jerry.

Her message reads: “Hello, I know that this may sound strange but I have the best of intentions. My name is Deb and I live in Indiana in the US and I love looking at the Polperro web site (your village is lovely) and particularly the web cams.

“One night last week I read about your Jerry who went missing. To finally get to the point, there is a tabby kitty who some nights sleeps on the mat at the entrance to the Claremont Hotel.

“I have seen this cat MANY times and love seeing him. I feel sorry for him really, he seems very nervous when people walk up or down in front of the hotel. I get the feeling he is lost. He doesn’t look as if it’s his home.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...oman-in-US.html

[broma25 2]

I hope it is their cat and they get reunited!

[Sister Fracas 5]

Wow, what a story! Hope the lil moggie is reunited with his family. You never know when you are on camera! LOL

[Nagishkaw 510]

I wonder how he got to the States?

[Sister Fracas 5]

I wonder how he got to the States?

he didn't... she spotted him on a web cam in the town where the family lives...

[Nagishkaw 510]

Ah, I read it like 3 times and still didn't quite understand. Thanks !

[Sister Fracas 5]

Ah, I read it like 3 times and still didn't quite understand. Thanks !

It DOES seem a bit strange that she spends so much time looking at the web cam though...

But that's what I love about people...that they will put up a message on a forum letting someone 4,000 miles away, know that they think they've seen their beloved kitty.

[Sinergy 3]

Ah, I read it like 3 times and still didn't quite understand. Thanks !

It DOES seem a bit strange that she spends so much time looking at the web cam though...

But that's what I love about people...that they will put up a message on a forum letting someone 4,000 miles away, know that they think they've seen their beloved kitty.

Indeed

[Krikit 1,165]

OMG, I LOVE Polperro! I bought a watercolour from an artist who runs a gallery there. Brought it home and had it framed. It was gorgeous. The movers lost it bringing it from Canada to the US because all my stuff had to go into storage for a month. I'm still upset about that.

That's awesome about the cat, though. LOL

[Marilyn. 340]

yeah hopefully they find their cat...