He had been missing since November 2018 when he took off from his home in Flemington, Lincoln, on Guy Fawkes night. A long, anguishing search followed, as Ross walked the surrounding streets, sometimes from 5.30am to midnight, shaking cat biscuits and calling his name. “Because I just couldn’t sleep, he was my baby.”Hector disappeared on Guy Fawkes night 2018. Ross continued to post on Facebook pages intermittently to remind people Hector was missing and had listed him on lostpet.co.nz. Ross and her mother took their cat cage to the woman’s house, near paddocks in the Ellesmere Rd area.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 22, 2021 23:15 UTC