Woman says pet was ‘definitely taken’ by man in suspected catnapping caught on camera
Surveillance video captured the moment a man allegedly stole a cat from outside a Westminster home over the weekend, and now the cat’s owner is pleading for her beloved pet’s safe return.
Eva Corlew told KTLA that her beloved cat, Clubber, was sitting underneath her boyfriend’s car when a man walked up and took him on Friday evening.
Clubber, an indoor-outdoor polydactyl Bengal Highland lynx cat (polydactyly is the condition of having extra toes) is just 10 months old, neutered and chipped. Describing him as “so adorable,” Corlew says that when he was taken, he was wearing a harness equipped with an Apple AirTag.
Video surveillance sent by Corlew to KTLA shows a man wearing a bright orange shirt walking down the sidewalk on Finchley Avenue and appearing to crouch over behind the car. After leaving the area, he was seen again walking the other way, but this time, he knelt and “left with something.”
“I saw that this man … put something down behind my boyfriend’s car and then slowly wandered off,” Corlew told KTLA 5 Orange County Bureau Chief Chip Yost on Wednesday. “Then, a little bit later, he came back walking [in the opposite direction], knelt back down, looked around and then it looks like he left with something.”
Further footage also showed the man walking towards a car parked at a street corner near Corlew’s house; this location is the same place where she found Clubber’s AirTag.
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Video surveillance sent by Eva Corlew to KTLA shows a man wearing a bright orange shirt walking down the sidewalk on Finchley Avenue and appearing to crouch over behind the car. After leaving the area, he was seen again walking the other way, but this time, he knelt and “left with something,” Corlew said. -
Video surveillance sent by Eva Corlew to KTLA shows a man wearing a bright orange shirt walking down the sidewalk on Finchley Avenue and appearing to crouch over behind the car. After leaving the area, he was seen again walking the other way, but this time, he knelt and “left with something,” Corlew said. -
Video surveillance sent by Eva Corlew to KTLA shows a man wearing a bright orange shirt walking down the sidewalk on Finchley Avenue and appearing to crouch over behind the car. After leaving the area, he was seen again walking the other way, but this time, he knelt and “left with something,” Corlew said. -
Video surveillance sent by Eva Corlew to KTLA shows a man wearing a bright orange shirt walking down the sidewalk on Finchley Avenue and appearing to crouch over behind the car. After leaving the area, he was seen again walking the other way, but this time, he knelt and “left with something,” Corlew said.
“When I found the AirTag, it was ditched on the sidewalk,” Corlew said. “So, he must have taken the harness off, pulled the AirTag off and threw it on the sidewalk, and that’s where I found it.”
“That’s when I knew [Clubber] was definitely taken,” she added.
Corlew is posting on social media and going door-to-door in her neighborhood in hopes that she can find someone who knows Clubber’s whereabouts, but as of early Wednesday afternoon, she had yet to find any luck.