Gus is still missing.
Do you know anything?
Recent Updates
We don’t have any new updates as of March. We continue to get leads that turn up nothing.
- We have had several leads on black and white cats - but no bobtails
- Someone suggested Gus's breakaway collar may have snagged under a car, explaining the tracker travel to Worthington
- We are localizing our search to the 5th by Northwest area of Grandview in Columbus. If you can help, let us know.
- We hung fliers all along the 270 loop as well as a banner over 315 - it stayed up for 24 hours before blowing away.
If you want to donate to our efforts to find Gus (banners, flyers, ads)
– you can Venmo Julie @juliegress2
Gus's Story
Gus has been missing since Monday, January 27. She was wearing a collar with an AirTag when she escaped from the house. The AirTag’s last location was in Worthington, 12 miles from where she went missing in Grandview. The AirTag stopped signaling at 1:15 p.m. on the 27th.
Julie, Gus’s mom, was traveling for a few days and left her three cats – Gus, Toby and Tem – in the care of a responsible friend. Gus, whose name is short for August, is a black and white female bobtail.
Sometime during the day on Monday, Julie’s roommate left the door to their home open long enough for Gus to slip out. He didn’t notice, leaving Julie to discover that Gus was missing over 24 hours later when she arrived home.
Gus’s home is on King Avenue in the Fifth by Northwest neighborhood of Grandview in Columbus. Gus was wearing an AirTag collar, but the tracker stopped working at 1:15 p.m. on Monday the 27th, the same day she escaped.
Gus is a 3-year-old black and white female shorthaired cat. She is an American Manx and has a bobtail – a short, stubby tail – and green eyes.
Gus is microchipped. If you take her to a veterinarian or shelter, her chip will have Julie’s information.
If you have any information about Gus – a possible sighting, a social media post, anything – please contact us immediately.
Gus’s family love her and miss her dearly. We need Gus to come home.
Gus is deeply loved and incredibly missed. The day that passed without knowing she was gone has put us far behind in trying to get her back home. Our greatest hope is that someone well-meaning picked Gus up and took her home out of the cold, and that she is somewhere warm and safe. We need Gus home.
Gus’s AirTag tracked her location to Worthington, which is an unfathomable distance for a cat to travel on her own four paws. We think Gus was picked up and her AirTag was discarded on the highway where the signal last pinged. There is a possibility that the AirTag was destroyed by some other means and the Worthington location is a false ping. Either way, we’re searching everywhere.
There will be no questions asked upon Gus’s safe return. All Julie wants is her beloved cat home where she belongs.
Contact Julie at jgress96@gmail.com with any information regarding Gus’s whereabouts.
This webpage is being maintained by Julie’s older sibling, so excuse the fact that it’s hosted on a livestock awards website. Or buy something. Thank you for looking and helping us find Gus!
If you prank call or send false information regarding Gus, know that your information will be reported to Columbus police and you’ll be signed up for Christian insurance, time shares, Jehovah’s witnesses and as much other spam as I can feasibly manage.