
These are the parties that have joined the Bolivian government’s mission to help find Tito, a grey-and-white male tabby cat that went missing on a domestic flight last month.
The plight of Tito and its determined owner, Andrea Iturre, has captivated the nation. Consumer rights minister Jorge Silva said last week that the authorities had even called in a psychic to try to make contact and locate the cat.
“Through her techniques, the psychic can communicate with Tito to find out where he is,” Silva said in a radio interview. “We are exhausting all our resources to find him.”
The cat went missing on Dec 8, Iturre recounted on a social media post that went viral, after she was told by the airline the cat had to travel in the hold of a plane from Tarija to Santa Cruz.
When she landed, her pet was nowhere to be found.
On Dec 12, public works minister Edgar Montano announced a big state-led search effort.
“The cat likes tuna, so we have left out tuna,” he told a news conference, adding he suspected the cat may have been roaming the original airport since the departure date.
Some animal lovers have criticised the airline, BoA, over the missing cat. BoA has said little publicly about the case so far, and did not immediately reply to a Reuters request for comment on Friday.
In a recent video, Iturre called for people to stay alert for signs of her beloved pet, adding: “I have not stopped, and I will not stop, searching for him.”