Cat psychic spirited in to find Irishwoman’s lost pet

THE Bolivian state airline has called in an ‘interspecies communicator’ – otherwise known as an animal psychic – in order to track down a cat who went missing in transit and belongs to an Irish passenger.

The psychic is reportedly working remotely in Bolivian capital La Paz – despite the cat going missing in Tarija, nearly 900km away. They have been in touch with the cat’s owner, Andrea Iturre, to say they sense he is still alive but there is still no trace of him anywhere.

Andrea had been travelling with her cat Tito in the South American country last month, but when she landed after a flight with Bolivian airline BoA on December 8, from Tarija to Santa Cruz, she was horrified to discover his cage was empty.

Andrea, who is based in Cork, has vowed that he will not give up until she finds him. The Bolivian government is said to be taking Tito’s disappearance seriously, as Reuters has reported that the country’s consumer rights minister, Jorge Silva, confirmed that they brought in a psychic to help locate the cat.

‘Through her techniques, [the psychic] can communicate with Tito to find out where he is. We are exhausting all our resources to find Tito,’ he said in a radio interview last week.

Previous attempts to find Tito included authorities putting out tuna for him in the area where he went missing because, as public works minister Edgar Montano said last month: ‘The cat likes tuna, so we have left out tuna.’ Mr Montano added that he suspected the cat was roaming the original airport since the departure date.

In a Facebook post when her cat went missing, Andrea said she ‘almost died’ when she discovered Tito’s cage was empty after she arrived in Santa Cruz.

She said that an agent of the airline BoA then told her that Tito was lost in Tarija. When she asked if there was anyone to call in Tarija airport, Andrea was told no one was working as it was already 2am.

Andrea was on a flight back to Tarija the next day to look for Tito, but that flight was also delayed.

She said there is ‘not enough compensation’ or ‘apologies’ that would undo the damage of losing her cat.

The airline is reported to have stopped searching for the cat after a week, but agreed to pay Andrea’s costs while she keeps looking for Tito.