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The owner
of a missing cat is asking for help. “My baby has been missing for over a month
now, and I want him back so badly,” said Mrs. Brown, a 56-year-old woman. Mrs.
Brown lives by herself in a trailer park near Clovis. She said that Clyde, her
7-year-old cat, didn’t come home for dinner more than a month ago. The next
morning he didn’t appear for breakfast either. After Clyde missed an
extra-special lunch, she called the police.
When the
policeman asked her to describe Clyde, she told him that Clyde had beautiful
green eyes, had all his teeth but was missing half of his left ear, and was
seven years old and completely white. She then told the officer that Clyde was
about a foot high.
A bell went
off. “Is Clyde your child or your pet?” the officer suspiciously asked. “Well,
he’s my cat, of course,” Mrs. Brown replied. “Lady, you’re supposed to report
missing PERSONS, not missing CATS,” said the irritated policeman. “Well, who can
I report this to?” she asked. “You can’t. You have to ask around your
neighborhood or put up flyers,” replied the officer.
Mrs. Brown
figured that a billboard would work a lot better than an 8”x11” piece of paper
on a telephone pole. There was an empty billboard at the end of her street just
off the interstate highway. The billboard had a phone number on it. She called
that number, and they told her they could blow up a picture of Clyde (from Mrs.
Brown’s family album) and put it on the billboard for all to see.
“But how
can people see it when they whiz by on the interstate?” she asked. “Oh, don’t
worry, ma’am, they only whiz by between 2 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. The rest of the
day, the interstate is so full of commuters that no one moves.” They told her it
would cost only $3,000 a month. So she took most of the money out of her savings
account and rented the billboard for a month.
The month
has passed, but Clyde has not appeared. Because she has almost no money in
savings, Mrs. Brown called the local newspaper to see if anyone could help her
rent the billboard for just one more month. She is waiting but, so far, no one
has stepped forward.
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