Recently in Lost pet Category

That would be Jack the Cat, who has risen to semi-celebrity status since he escaped his

owner's travel kennel a week ago at JFK International in New York and is now on the run.

As airport officials and his frantic owner, Karen Pascoe, continue to search for the missing feline, Jack has set up his own Facebook and Twitter accounts. He has more than 9,000 Facebook fans.

According to a story in the Herald Sun, Pascoe last saw her long-haired tawny-colored cat when she dropped him off, along with Jack's "brother," Barry, on Aug. 25 at baggage services for an American Airlines cross-country flight to San Jose, where she was to start a new job:

But Ms Pascoe made it no further than the food court when she got a call from an airline employee saying Jack had taken a powder and they believed he was in the inbound baggage claim area, ABC News reported.

Then everything really got complicated with the approach of Hurricane Irene.

The airline has flown Jack's owner back to New York to help with the renewed search now that the storm has passed. It is believed that Jack may still be within the airport, but there have been no sightings.

Daily briefings are held for the airport staff.

Read more here.

And you can follow his escapades (he's "having the time of my lives," according to one of his recent tweets)  on Facebook ("like" Jack the Cat is Lost in AA Baggage at JFK) and Twitter (@findjackthecat).

*****Update: Chloe has been found. Thanks all. 

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From Julia at Basset Rescue: 

Anyone in San Pedro/Wilmington Please be on the lookout for this dog who ran from her yard when she heard fireworks! 

She has been gone a few hours and her mom is hysterical.....URGENT. Her name is Chloe and she is a bassador (basset lab mix)

So what do you think happened to Chuck the dog in the 4 years he went missing from his PVE family?

Today's Daily Breeze story by colleague Art Marroquin tells the story of how Chuck, adopted in April 2002 as a 2-month-old puppy by Eric and Lisa Nakkim, got out of their gate on Jan. 7, 2007, and vanished -- until last Friday.

The black Labrador/pit bull mix had gotten loose before, but always returned home. This time, he never came back. The family took out newspaper ads and posted fliers, but Chuck never turned up.

"Every night, especially when it was cold, we would think about that dog and wonder where he was," said Eric Nakkim, an emergency room doctor at Torrance Memorial Medical Center.

Then, out of the blue last Friday, a woman called the family to report that she'd found their dog near the Torrance Civic Center. Linda Sheldon had just got off a bus and was walking to her job at City Hall when she spotted Chuck near Maple Avenue and El Dorado Street.

An animal lover, she coaxed the dog over to her and noticed his collar with a silver tag -- the same collar and tag Chuck wore when he escaped. The last number of the phone number was rubbed bare, so it took a few tries, but Sheldon finally reached the Nakkims.

After a checkup with the vet, Chuck is happily back home -- thin, but otherwise OK -- and enjoying a lot of attention from the Nakkims and their two children, Kai and Koa.

Daily Breeze photo by Scott Varley


"We're just so thankful that this good Samaritan took the time to check on a missing dog, and that he's finally home with us," Lisa Nakkim said. 

"It's just like seeing a long-lost friend," her husband said. "I'm ecstatic and overwhelmed with emotion."

Oh, and Chuck is now sleeping indoors -- all the gates to the home are now secured.

So where was Chuck all that time -- and with his tag still on, why didn't anyone report him sooner? Was he perhaps hanging out with a homeless companion?

The Nakkims will probably never know for sure. And Chuck's not talking.

*****Update 2/23: I received this email just a little while ago from Curly's owner:

Curly has been found! She was dropped off at the Downey Animal
Shelter by an anonymous Good Samaritan! We are very glad and grateful
to have her back. She's a bit traumatized but happy to be back home.


Please keep your eye out for Curly, a dog who is nearly 20 years old, deaf and has very poor vision. She walks with an "odd gait," the owner said, because she's had a stroke.

Her owners live in the 100 block of South Prospect Avenue in Redondo Beach and she's been missing since last night (Monday, Feb. 21). Fliers have been posted around the neighborhood.

From the owner:

She does not have her collar but is microchipped. She was last seen
on South Prospect Ave. about 1/2 block north of Torrance Blvd. Her
vet is Dr. Christina Hutson at Animal Hospital of Redondo Beach.

Let's get this baby home!

Call Carla at 310-849-3295.

**Update: Good news, I just learned that the dog made it home. Remember everyone, tags & microchips. 






I spotted these fliers near Averill Park as I was walking my dogs yesterday.

Toby was last seen on Feb. 11 near 18th and Leland streets in San Pedro. His "person," a 2-year-old girl, "really wants her best friend back."

This 3-year-old male Samoyed was found wandering the streets of Los Angeles. The foster home has taken him in for all his shots and a microchip.

If someone out there is missing him, call Lucy at 562-928-0107 or (cell) 310-351-0726. If an owner isn't found an adoptive home will be needed.

The dog is tan and white and is "beautiful, docile and loving," according to the foster.

Diva is quite the traveler.

She went missing from her Lancaster home about a month ago and headed east. She turned up this week 800 miles away -- in Boise, Idaho.

The dog was found -- thin, but otherwise healthy -- by Kari Ravert, a customer service manager at the Idaho Humane Society. The owner, Rita Kircher, a Lancaster mom of five, almost didn't answer her phone when Ravert called on Tuesday. "I don't know anyone in Idaho," she said.

From IdahoStatesman.com:

Ravert asked Kircher if she had a dog named Diva. "She was shocked that her dog was in Boise," Ravert said.

.... "She does get out of the yard, but she doesn't go far," Kircher said. "She's always wound up right back in the front yard.

Diva, shown in the photo above provided by the Idaho Humane Society, had been staying with a friend when the family was moving to a new home and somehow got loose on Dec. 20. The family looked "everywhere" for the 2-year-old German shepherd mix, who belonged to Kircher's son, Tyler, 15, according to the Idaho Statesman article.

They checked the local shelter, but the dog never turned up.

Fast forward to this week and some 800 miles away. Ravert was driving her minivan in South Boise when she noticed a dog wandering through the fog in traffic at around 8:30 a.m. Tuesday.

"I stopped, pulled my passenger door open, and she jumped in. One of the kids at the bus stop closed the door," Ravert told reporter Katy Moeller.

There was no collar, but Ravert took the dog to a shelter to scan for a microchip.

The Idaho Humane Society is assisting the Kircher family in getting the dog home.

How the dog got from California to Idaho is still a mystery.

****1/11/11: I received an email today from Sonji saying that Jack J's new owners (who apparently had not yet updated his microchip after they adopted him) spotted this posting and have contacted her to take Jack home. Yay.



Jack J was found wandering around the Lomita business district just after Christmas. He is being kept temporarily but those who found him would like to find his owner. From the email:

I have a business in Lomita and a lost dog wandered in just after Christmas. We think the dog is a Jack Russell Terrier, black and white, neutered male, probably a year old or less (we aren't sure).

We took the dog to the vet and the vet scanned him - he has a chip. The chip service had the registered person contact us, but apparently that person sold the dog to someone, and they never registered as the new owners. The original owner said he would contact the new owners, and give them our info. But no one ever called. We called the original owner again, and they basically hung up and didn't answer the phone when we called subsequent times.

We already have a large dog and a cat and are not able to keep him, but would like him to find a good home. He is a beautiful, friendly, cuddly dog and gets along well with everyone he's met, as well as other dogs!

We found temporary arrangements for him to stay with a friend, but they already have dogs too and can't keep him, so we need to find another option for him. (His name is Jack J )

Call Sonji at 424-237-4384.

****Update 12/1: All kinds of good news to report today. This dog, below -- whose name, as it turned out, was Bosco -- has been reunited with his owner. Turns out he was microchipped and the people who found him had him scanned at a local vet's office.

Two of those missing show dogs we reported on yesterday have also have turned up  in Compton. The other two, corgis, remain missing, however.


We got this e-mail today from a reader in Westchester: 

This doggie showed up at our house this afternoon - I don't know the breed, sort of like a furry chihuahua?  Male, cared for, no collar or tag.

The dog was found in the 7200 block of Ogelsby between Nancy and Kentwood, just north of 77th Street.

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*************Again, this dog has since been reunited with his owner. Thanks to those who took him in and made the effort to get him home again.

This black-and-white cat, thought to be around 3 or 4 years old, was found recently near the intersection of Palos Verdes Boulevard and Sepulveda (Camino Real). The cat is mostly black with patches of white.

The people who found him believe he belongs to someone and have been trying to locate an owner.

If he looks familiar to you, give Joe a call at 310-613-7644.