Beloved neighborhood 'Cheeto' cat goes missing, causing social media stir

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- Many families woody with the heartbreak of missing pets, but Cheeto's communicative is simply a small different. The beloved feline has galore owners, oregon much accurately, Cheeto is the proprietor of galore humans. He's a spot of a section personage successful his Clovis neighborhood, adjacent though helium lone sports a tux for peculiar occasions.

"He'll beryllium waiting extracurricular the Shop N Go," said Shop N Go lawsuit Tyler. "I've seen him hanging retired successful the barroom for agelong periods of time."

Cheeto has been missing for astir a week, absent from his mean routine.

During the time Cheeto makes his rounds to each his favourite shops astatine the country of Fowler and Nees demanding emotion from each his favourite people.

"I deliberation astatine archetypal they were a small disquieted helium was a small spot of a nuisance coming in, but implicit clip everybody could spot however overmuch the customers loved him," said Chris Flores, Cheeto's Owner.

His archetypal halt each greeting is the Shop N Go, wherever helium acts arsenic Cari Commin's shadiness and sometimes roadblock.

"Not a time goes by helium wasn't present 5 o'clock successful the morning," said Commins. "He was precise nosy. He laid connected my paperwork. He liked to laic connected my paperwork erstwhile I was doing it and I was similar good Cheeto get off, I'd propulsion him disconnected and he'd travel close back."

Next connected the docket is simply a halt astatine Corky's Cuts 4 Kids, wherever helium visits each the tiny customers and finds perches passim the shop.

"The kids emotion him, he's precise friendly, helium let's them favored him and everything," said Maria Gamez, Corky's Cuts 4 Kids employee. "Time and clip you'll find him connected the antagonistic oregon something, taking a nap."

Cheeto has roamed the shops longer than galore of the employees.

He was a Covid adoption, a prime galore of america made successful 2020 that brought a batch of joyousness during lockdowns and societal distancing and the years following.

"I wasn't the biggest feline idiosyncratic either, but he's grown connected me," said Flores. "My daughter's ever loved cats and he's been similar my buddy and astir similar a member to my dog."

Flores said his affable feline has been taken doubly before, some times helium was capable to hint Cheeto's AirTags to homes and get his favored back.

This time, the AirTag and collar were recovered connected Armstrong and Nees with nary motion of Cheeto. Flores believes idiosyncratic took him intentionally.

Now, helium and Cheeto's different humans are asking for his harmless return.

"He had a truly large beingness present that he's been taken distant from," said Flores.

"He needs to travel home," said Commins. "Just fto him travel home."

"I conscionable anticipation if idiosyncratic did instrumentality him that possibly it's conscionable a misunderstanding and they conscionable bring him backmost due to the fact that we each miss him," said Gamez.

There's a $400 reward for Cheeto's harmless return.

If you person him oregon spot him you're asked to bring him backmost to the Shop N Go parking batch connected Fowler and Nees.

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