On Monday, Josh and I noticed that we hadn't seen Wilbur in a while, so we called our neighbor lady to ask if she had him at her place. She said she had let him outside over the weekend and hadn't seen him since. When there wasn't a Wilbur sighting in a few days, we became worried.
My neighbor lady placed an ad in the Lost & Found section of our local newspaper. On Thursday, she and her boyfriend put together some flyers with pictures of Wilbur that I had e-mailed her.
She got a call on Friday from a lady saying she had our cat. She did in fact have Wilbur. It turns out that this woman "rescues" cats all the time. She has 10 cats at her house, and when her son, who was walking home at 3 am Sunday morning, encountered Wilbur on the street, he felt that Wilbur needed to be "Rescued." Even though Wilbur had a colar and tags, this kid felt that he needed to take this cat home to his mom.
So to make a long story shorter, the lady dropped Wilbur off at my neighbor lady's house on Friday night, and my neighbor lady gave her a $15 reward.
So, if you would like to make extra cash, pick up a cat from the street, and wait for some one to put an ad in the paper that matches the description of the cat you picked up, and then drop the cat off, and get your money.
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Hurray for Wilbur. At least he wasn't held for ransom. But in a way he was when the finder/rescuer accepted the reward. Pretty sneaky.
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