Dolores Bellimer and Marilyn Lage share an interest in Fluffy, a cat who went missing for six months and five days. Fluffy escaped from a carrier, held by Dolores, his owner and Brockport resident, on the way to be treated by a vet for raccoon bites. Friend Marilyn placed a weekly ad in Westside News publications for six months in an effort to recover him. After about 15 calls that came in claiming to have seen Fluffy, he was found by Kathy Steel, in Clarkson and was finally caught in a pet-friendly trapping device and returned to Dolores. Fluffy is very timid and was very difficult to photograph, but thanks to Marilyn's efforts, he was "captured" for a short while and embraced while posing for his picture. Fluffy's adventure originally started when the college student who had him left, and left Fluffy behind. Lage began feeding him. One day she saw a poster in Ryan's Big M about a missing cat. Lage called the number on the poster and Bellimer answered. She came to look at him, he wasn't the cat she thought he was but took him home anyway. Lage said Dr. Buttery, a vet in Clarkson, is responsible for saving Fluffy's life after the raccoon attack. Photograph by Walter Horylev. February 25, 2007 |
