Looking for Owner of Lost Cat

Megumi Tsuda admits she's an "animal lover."

Which is probably why she and a friend didn't hesitate to help a small cat they found in a tree in the friend's backyard on Homestead Avenue near Crystal Lake Avenue on Dec. 21.

"She was really friendly and cute," said Tsuda, 21, a junior biology major at Brown University who is home in Haddonfield on a break. "We assumed she belonged to a loving home."

But finding that loving home hasn't been easy since her friend Cara Masullo's father climbed a long ladder to retrieve the lovable, orange tabby they've come to simply call "kitty."

Tsuda and Masullo took the cat to the Animal Orphanage shelter in Voorhees to see if it had been reported missing. It had not, and it did not have an implanted microchip ID. They had also called borough police, who told them they could turn it in but it would be handed over to a shelter.

Tsuda and Masullo opted to keep the cat until they can find the owner or someone willing to adopt it. They enlisted another friend in Collingswood to keep the tabby while they scoured the Internet for notices of a lost cat.

They thought they might have a lead from an announcement in Haddonfield Patch on Oct. 27 for a lost, tabby cat. They couldn't immediately retrieve the Google search and contacted Haddonfield Patch for help.

The Oct. 27 listing does not match the description of the cat they found, which is a small, orange tabby with a black and white, leopard-print collar.

Tsuda said the cat looked "well kept" when they found it, but was extremely hungry when fed.

Do you know who may have lost this cat? The home on Homestead Avenue near Crystal Lake Avenue is near the border with Haddon Township and it may reside there.

Any one with information about the cat or who may want to adopt it should contact Tsuda at 1-609-330-3011 or agnes_tsuda@brown.edu or bill.duhart@patch.com.