To whom it may concern

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Got your DVDs or YouTube playlists ready? Keeping a wary eye on that cute dog down the road? Smart move, because we're about to watch the Retainer.

The IT stories you don’t get in other newspapers usually turn up in The Sun. For example, the tale of Abbi Rendell’s cat Jerry, lost in October in her home village of Polperro, Cornwall.

She posted on the local web site (www.polperro.org) asking if anyone had seen Jerry and received an email from Deb Wilgus.

Deb had seen Jerry sleeping outside a local hotel. But... Deb lives in Indiana, and saw Jerry while watching Polperro on her webcam. Are we the only people who find this a bit creepy?

Is Polperro south England's version of Eerie? Could they be sister cities? Is internet surveillance the latest front in the war between cats and dogs? Does Deb work for the Canine Arrest Team?


Jerry the tabby had run away when the couple moved house from Staffordshire to Cornwall and it was feared he had got lost and died.


But then, thanks to the wonders of technology, Jerry was spotted - by a woman nearly 4,000 miles away in America.


Deb Wilgus, an avid Anglophile from Indiana, had regularly seen the two-year-old cat out and about in the middle of the night on a webcam outside the Claremont hotel in Polperro , Cornwall.


When she saw an appeal on the same website she immediately passed on the amazing news.


Now Mr and Mrs Rendell are staking out the hotel and are convinced they will find their long lost pet.

Mrs Rendell, 30, a barmaid, said: “About three weeks after we moved in Jerry decided to take himself off on a walkabout and we haven’t seen him since. I was so upset.

“I’d get up at two or three in the morning to try to find him but we heard nothing for seven months, even though I put up posters of him in every shop and pub in the village.

“Then out of the blue we got this message from a woman in America saying she had seen him and when I looked at the webcam picture I knew it was him instantly.

“I felt quite emotional when I saw him. I just couldn’t believe it and it’s definitely going to help us find him because he’s a creature of habit.

“Deb loves looking at the website because she thinks it’s so quaint here. She’d seen Jerry dozens of times - almost every day.”

Mrs Rednell left her “Lost cat!” message on the Polperro village forum on October 25 but it was not until April 12 that Deb replied saying she had seen Jerry.

Her message reads: “Hello, I know that this may sound strange but I have the best of intentions. My name is Deb and I live in Indiana in the US and I love looking at the Polperro web site (your village is lovely) and particularly the web cams.

“One night last week I read about your Jerry who went missing. To finally get to the point, there is a tabby kitty who some nights sleeps on the mat at the entrance to the Claremont Hotel.

“I have seen this cat MANY times and love seeing him. I feel sorry for him really, he seems very nervous when people walk up or down in front of the hotel. I get the feeling he is lost. He doesn’t look as if it’s his home.”