Missing cat found, a purr-fect ending

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The kitten who was stolen from the cage he shared with his mother at a Redwood City shelter returned home yesterday (May 27) two weeks after disappearing. Olaf is now about six weeks old, and while he is about three ounces smaller than he should be, Whis-Purr shelter director Lucy Brock says the kitten is fine physically and just a little “discombobulated.” “I knew the minute I saw him, the markings were all in the right place, and he recognized me,” Brock said. Brock rescued Olaf and his family a day after the kitten was born and cared for him at the shelter, which shares a building with the Peninsula Feed Store at 346 El Camino Real. Brock had received a tip via Instagram that a 15-year-old was bragging about stealing the kitten on a Snapchat post. After receiving the tip, Brock and some volunteers put up flyers about Olaf in the neighborhood where the teen lives, hoping she would come forward. However, she did not. So Brock went to the home to confront the family but Olaf wasn’t there. Not wanting any further trouble, the family had taken the kitten to the…
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