Have You Seen My Family?

(News Today) - He looks perfectly happy playing in the sand and relaxing in a rowing boat. But you can almost guarantee that somewhere, the small child who owns him is far from content.

For Meare Kat, named after the tea shop outside which he was found, is lost - and he needs your help to get him home.

The toy cat was first spotted abandoned by the shop's owner Liz Everett. And realising that someone would be missing him desperately, she set up an internet campaign to return him home. So far, 500 people have joined the Facebook page to help.

On it, he is shown tucking into an ice cream cone, sitting in a blue rowing boat, and on the beach.

In a caption underneath, he says: 'I've had a lovely day out, now I'm ready to go home.'

He adds: 'I've lost my family. We were having a lovely day by the seaside in Thorpeness, Suffolk, on Sunday July 18. Then they left me behind. If I belong to you, or you know my owner, please get in touch. I'm sure the person that owns me is very upset. Please share this page and spread the word.'

Mrs Everett, who has two grown-up children, said the cat was handed in by a customer on a busy day when lots of families had come into the tearoom. 'I don't know how old he is - he could have been passed down. But he could be a modern toy which has had so many cuddles and that's why he looks so well loved.'

The 59-year-old, who started the Meare Shop and Tearoom in 1986 with her late husband Chris, is determined to find his owner.

She explained how distressed her own son, now 38, became as a child when his favourite bear went missing.

' When Justin was just small my husband and I took him to the Lake District and we had a picnic and lost Justin's bear, Scruff. We spent the whole evening in the fog trying to find this bear and we never did.

'It took Justin four days to accept another toy and I can imagine another family going through four sleepless nights with an inconsolable child.

'That's why I'm desperately trying to find his owners.'

Source : kompas

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