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CBS News
31-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
Brooklyn community celebrates return of missing bodega cat
A celebration was held Friday in Brooklyn for a once-missing bodega cat that was returned home. Earlier in May, CBS News New York spoke with Ali Alesaei, who manages Prince Deli and Juice Bar. Some like to say he co-manages with the true prince of the shop, Snowy the Persian cat. Video shows stranger walking off with beloved bodega cat Surveillance video from May 8 shows Snowy being taken by a man Alesaei says he's never seen in his 24-hour store before. Alesaei put missing posters up in the bodega and around the neighborhood, offering a reward for Snowy's safe return. "It was all over the chats that we have for the neighborhood, and people were looking around and trying to find Snowy," Flatbush resident Sierra Fox said. After two weeks, Alesaei said he finally got word of his beloved cat's whereabouts. "Someone come to us, he said, 'I saw his face in the news and I know where he's at,' and he bring him back for us. Thanks God," he said. Alesaei believes the person who picked Snowy up may have just left the 5-month-old cat by another bodega about three blocks down. The person who brought him back wanted to remain anonymous. "I'm so happy because we found Snowy after two weeks of darkness," Alesaei said. Reunion party thrown for Snowy's return The missing signs were quickly replaced with reunion party signs for the fuzzy feline. Alesaei set up a tent and table outside the shop with balloons and streamers, offering community members cookies with photos of Snowy on them and a three-tier cake. A celebration was held in Brooklyn on May 30, 2025, for a once-missing bodega cat that was returned home. CBS News New York "Snowy is a neighborhood celebrity," one Flatbush resident said. "It shows that a lot of people in this community really care – care about each other, care about our neighbors, our animals, our bodegas," Fox said. "We all need this. It's perfect," Flatbush resident Lisa Zbar said. Customers say they're excited to pop back into their neighborhood store and say hi to their favorite employee again. To make sure he never goes missing again, Snowy now has an AirTag attached to his collar. "We bought the tracker and we have to close the door at midnight because I don't want him to be outside no more," Alesaei said. Alesaei said he considered getting a new cat during those two weeks, but he didn't, telling CBS News New York that Snowy is irreplaceable.
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Dartmoor will be poorer for the Supreme Court's decision
In January 2023, the largest land access demonstration since the 1930s took place on a bright wintery morning on Dartmoor. As many as 3000 people massed on Stall Moor to protest the ban on wild camping. Dartmoor had been one of the few places in the UK where ramblers could pitch a tent for the night until the hedge fund manager, Alexander Darwall, brought legal action claiming that the right to camp was expressly not allowed in accordance with the Dartmoor Commons Act. Darwall was a focal point of that bright wintery morning. His visage appeared on banners, his name was on everyone's lips, and at the end of the day, as the sun went down, a chant of 'Darwall… a---hole' went up, while drummers kept time. It was very much an us versus him paradigm and the tales were wild. His reason for buying the land, according to some, was mineral rights. Others told me he'd inherited it all. But then again, another observer told me it was about the vast profits he supposedly makes from pheasant shooting. Alexander Darwall was everywhere and nowhere, not so much a man as an idea. There was a real carnival atmosphere. It felt both quietly revolutionary and quite childish. But I wasn't there to protest. I was there to research my book on land access, Uncommon Ground, and the protest, in spite of being the focus of the media, wasn't where the most interesting story actually was. About five months after the protest, I headed back to Dartmoor to visit a 76 year old gamekeeper who, for 43 years, has run a shoot on that contested ground. 'Frightened the s--t out of me', he admitted, when we sat down to talk in his cottage. He'd spent the morning on guard in his pheasant pens in the valley below and then, in the afternoon, he'd driven up to have a look. He was keen to make it known that he hadn't encountered 'a bad person among them.' Snowy clearly isn't worried about thoughtful ramblers. The trouble, he told me, 'are the scrotes'. He has apparently wasted huge amounts of time over the years clearing up after irresponsible fly campers. His observation was fascinating as I encountered a whole suite of people who would happily see Snowy's way of life as a pheasant keeper consigned to history but his point was important – it's very hard for those who camp responsibly to recognise that a great many don't. While we chatted about times past and about Snowy's love of wildlife, a truck pulled into the yard. 'This here', Snowy explained with great admiration, as the driver got out, 'is young Simon.' Simon, he told me, would be taking over as head keeper, and with him was a local farmer's son. Simon was thoughtful, tremendously balanced, and clearly immensely keen on conservation. Sometimes, he told me, he almost has to laugh. He'll find people having a picnic right in the middle of his lapwing plot (a bird which is almost extinct on Dartmoor) and the picnickers tend to have no idea they are disturbing anything. Some of them, he went on, are really respectful and want to learn but others seem to want a fight. Snowy turned to the young lad and asked him what he thought of it all. Shyly, he said to me that as he sees it those at the forefront of the fight to camp on Dartmoor are just 'a bunch of rich Londoners trying to tell us what to do.' He's not entirely right – but he's closer to the truth than many would like to admit and who am I to tell him he's wrong? What's interesting is that he feels that way and he added, in case I was in any doubt, 'any young farmer will tell you the same'. What stays with me most from that conversation was Snowy saying that when he first realised the impact that the public has on nature was during foot and mouth. The whole thing, he recalled, was terrible but because there weren't any people, everything changed. 'I saw adders. I saw birds in places I've never seen, and the insect life in the grass was just totally different.' On 21 May, 2025, at mid-morning, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that people do have the right to camp on Dartmoor. Part of me is pleased – it means a great deal to some but I worry too for the wildlife and I worry about that young lad and Simon and Snowy. I worry because the media is focussing predictably on the campaigners and those privileged few who own the land. As ever it's as though those who work the land don't exist. Ask any young farmer, that boy said in that cottage kitchen, except we won't. Patrick Galbraith's Uncommon Ground: Rethinking our relationship with the countryside is out now with William Collins Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
CBS News
12-05-2025
- CBS News
Video offers clues in Flatbush, Brooklyn bodega cat's apparent theft
Neighbors in Brooklyn are trying to solve the mystery of a beloved cat stolen from a local bodega. The cat's owner believes new video could help solve the case. Snowy the bodega cat's disappearance A beautiful 5-month-old Persian named Snowy was stolen Thursday night from the Prince Deli on Cortelyou Road in Flatbush. Ali Alesie is the store manager, and Snowy's rightful owner. "A family member for the whole neighborhood. Everybody likes this cat," Alesie said. "The cat used to stay here and go outside and come back. It's well known in this area. Everybody knows the cat belongs to the bodega." Surveillance video just outside the front door shows Snowy in the arms of a stranger who was last seen walking west toward Marlborough Road. "I don't know him," Alesie said. A hiccup in the police investigation Alesie took the video straight to the police, but said the NYPD is no longer actively investigating after he says workers at a bodega down the block saw the cat get dropped off in front of the store. It's now believed the guy on the footage no longer has the cat. "He threw it. He threw the cat like three blocks," Alesie said. He's now posting flyers and offering a reward for a cat that neighbors who frequent the bodega know and love. "It's horrible because I have a pet. I have a cat at home. If somebody would steal it, I don't know what to say," customer Alina Moldan said. "My message is please bring it back. He's a family member," Alesie added.
Yahoo
15-04-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Cat stuck 20ft up tree for NINE days after hitching a ride to the tip
A cat was stuck 20ft up a tree for up to NINE days after it hitched a ride to the tip. Owner Raza Ayub, 36, thinks Maine Coon Snowy, two, jumped into a neighbour's car and was taken to the tip by accident the next morning, before escaping into nearby woods, and seeking refuge up a tree. Raza and his daughter Aila, nine, from Bradford, Yorkshire, appealed for help on local Facebook groups and put up 50 posters. Eventually a local saw Snowy up a tree. The moggy refused to come down - so was helped to the ground by a tree surgeon, on March 31. The family think she could have been up the tree for as long as nine days.
