To the editor:
I want to thank all the good people of South Bristol for their help, understanding, and advice during the month we spent searching for our daughter’s beloved missing cat. Not only did everyone to whose house we went welcome us and allow us to search under porches and sheds and all over their property, but they were also unfailingly friendly and sympathetic, and many kept a lookout for a gray-and-white cat.
We received a number of phone calls of sightings. Finally Bleecker was found on Roderick Road by my cousins, and was very happy to have been brought home. Bleecker has been checked by a vet and surprisingly, after 26 days of adventures, had suffered no injuries and, though 2 pounds slimmer, is in perfect health.
I heard many warning stories of fisher cats and a fox on Rutherford Island, but somehow Bleecker managed to elude them. We became discouraged after a while, but were heartened by the sympathy and interest shown by absolutely everyone we met in South Bristol. It’s a wonderful, caring community! Special thanks to young Aidan who kept trying to find and capture Bleecker.
I hope that we found and took down all the many posters tacked on telephone poles. Bleecker is now under “house arrest” in Massachusetts on his way home to Maryland, so if you see any gray-and-white cats roaming around, they belong to other households.
Sally Tso
South Bristol
