Social media helps find sick kitten stolen from Winnipeg Pet Rescue Shelter

The Winnipeg Pet Rescue Shelter is thankful for a keen eyed Winnipegger after a tiny kitten was stolen from the business over the weekend.

Hercules, a nine week old brown tabby with blueish/grey eyes, was taken from his cage around 5:45 p.m Sunday.

“We’re just so happy,” Carla Martinelli-Irvine, the shelter’s executive director, said.

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Around two hours after the public plea, some good news. Martinelli-Irvine got a message on Instagram from someone who spotted posts on Snapchat with the same kitten. She told police and said officers reached out to the suspect’s family. The kitten was brought back to the shelter Monday afternoon.

Martinelli-Irvine said three teenage girls were in the shelter the last time Hercules was seen. When the girls left staff noticed the kitten was missing.

A $200 reward was being offered for the safe return of Hercules.