Lost kitten's owners search across state lines
Kitten Sabrina lounges at her Oregon home before wandering lost near the Gorge.
GEORGE - While Sabrina had a happy ending in the Audrey Hepburn classic film, it remains unclear if a 4-month-old kitten - also named Sabrina - will receive the same fate.
Nor her owners.
Pamela Andrews and Marvin Viera, both of Central Point, Ore., were traveling through Washington with two dogs and two kittens.
And while this may sound like just another missing pet, there's a little bit more.
Andrews had lost her first husband, Arthur, in 2008 as well as siblings, friends and several pets in the past few subsequent years.
"I'm finally trying to put things back together in my life," she said. "Getting these kittens is a hopeful thing in my life, and when one disappears, it breaks my heart."
Andrews and her fiance Viera were traveling through western and central Washington over the Fourth of July weekend to visit his family.
Along with them they brought two kittens, Sabrina and Samantha, and two dogs, Nuss and Keelie.
The couple stopped by the Wild Horse Monument along the Columbia River to take some photos and then traveled toward the Gorge Amphitheater.
"What we didn't realize is that the kittens squeaked out the door," Andrews said. They were on the main road just before the amphitheater's parking lot.
And while Viera recovered Samantha, Sabrina managed to elude the couple.
After they realized the feline was missing, Andrews spotted an older model yellow compact car with some teenage girls in it.
They had stopped exactly where we were and one jumped out and grabbed something," she said. "At the time I didn't think too much of it, but this kitten would have come if I called her."
Andrews said that Sabrina was a very obedient cat.
"I'm trying to keep up hope, but it's hard," Andrews said. "Getting these kittens is a hopeful thing in my life, and when one disappears, it kind of breaks my heart."
"She's got the most unruliest whiskers and eyebrows you've ever seen," Viera said of Sabrina. "She would just melt in your arms."
"I can see why someone might be tempted to keep her," Andrews said. "I'm hoping she's in a new home if I don't get her back. But she has a sister who misses her, and of course the dogs miss her, and me and my fiance miss her."
Sabrina is described as a mostly black kitten with a white bib that extends through her stomach.
Both Andrews and Viera said that her whiskers, eyebrows and ear hair are long and white. She was also wearing a nylon harness.
To reach Andrews, call 1-530-643-6108.
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