Ame thought Lucy might be hiding upstairs.The family's kitten had missed dinner, which felt odd.
Still, cats hide.They nap in strange places.
Sometimes, they ignore everyone.But when breakfast came the next morning, Lucy still did not show up."When we fed dinner one night, and she didn't come running, I thought maybe she was upstairs in the kids' bedroom, but when we fed breakfast the next morning, she didn't come running again, so then I knew for sure she wasn't in the house," Ame said.That is when a normal morning in Dayton, Ohio, turned into a frantic search.
Lucy was less than a year old.Ame's two young children were devastated.
And wherever Lucy had gone, her family knew she had already spent the night away from home."If she had been out all night, we were really worried," Ame said.Ame's daughter, Evi, felt that fear immediately.
"I was really sad and cried a lot.It was really heartbreaking," Evi said.Sign up for my FREE CyberGuy ReportPRO WRESTLING STAR KILLER KROSS SHARES SWEET, LIFE-ALTERING MOMENT WHEN A CAT CAME INTO HIS LIFEA missing Ohio kitten survived a ride under the hood of a stranger's car before AI photo-matching technology helped reunite her with her family in just over 24 hours.
(Photo by Shirlaine Forrest/WireImage)After the first wave of searching, Ame turned to Petco Love Lost."I found out about Petco Love Lost through a friend of mine who also had a cat go missing.
She said Petco Love Lost is a website where you can match from finders who have uploaded pictures of pets that they've found," Ame said.Ame created a lost pet profile and uploaded Lucy's picture.The free nationwide database uses AI photo-matching technology to compare lost pet photos with found pet reports.
Petco Love says the system looks at more than 500 visual markers to identify pets by features that stay with them wherever they go.Then came the lead Ame needed."It was actually very easy and quick.
It was only about 10 or 12 hours before I got a lead on where Lucy migh...