Help Find Cowboy, A Lost Cat

Virginia residents Flo and Jerry Thompson were traveling home from Maine June 20 when they got off the highway in Newtown and stopped at the Mobil gas station for a rest. As she stepped inside for coffee, her husband exited the car to get gas. Their cat Cowboy slipped out of the vehicle and into the woods. “Jerry tried to reach him, but Cowboy kept going,” she said.

“I am really missing Cowboy. I haven’t been this upset since I was a child,” Ms Thompson said this week. She returned to Newtown on Monday, June 28, and spent the night into June 29 at the gas station hoping to see her cat that night. She did not see him, but did hear from one of the Blue Colony Diner staff that a cat is definitely in the area. “A bus boy said he heard a cat meowing — it broke my heart.”

Cowboy has been traveling with her for several years and has been as far as Canada with the Thompsons. “I love him very much.” She explained that he has a white face and has black and white markings that look like a saddle on his back.

Ms Thomson met with Karlyn Sturmer, a feral cat-rescue volunteer in Newtown, who will help find Cowboy. The women hope to hear from residents who may have seen the cat, but warn that he is a timid animal and not inclined to come to strangers. Ms Sturmer asks that people contact her with information about Cowboy, to help her determine where to try to trap him. Call Ms Sturmer at 203-426-1142. She believes that Cowboy may be staying near the gas station where he last saw his owners. See advertisement in this week’s paper.