{"id":78708,"date":"2026-09-15T06:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T11:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/15\/a-brooklyn-bodega-cat-was-stolen-and-a-community-has-rallied-to-try-to-find-him\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T06:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T11:55:14","slug":"a-brooklyn-bodega-cat-was-stolen-and-a-community-has-rallied-to-try-to-find-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/15\/a-brooklyn-bodega-cat-was-stolen-and-a-community-has-rallied-to-try-to-find-him\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brooklyn bodega cat was stolen \u2013 and a community has rallied to try to find him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people appeared to take three-month-old Jabal the kitten in plain view of a surveillance camera<\/p>\n<p>Owners of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/new-york\">New York City<\/a> bodega on Monday were holding out hope that they would be reunited with their store\u2019s kitten after a couple passing by the store days earlier appeared to abduct the cat in plain view of a surveillance camera and ignited an intense grassroots search effort.<\/p>\n<p>The plight of three-month-old Jabal began on Thursday morning in Brooklyn, when he went just outside the Eighth Street Mini Market where he lives as it opened for the day. A man walking alongside a woman passed the Park Slope market then picked up Jabal, and the pair took off as the kitten visibly squirmed, according to store surveillance video which the bodega\u2019s owner, Imad \u201cJimmy\u201d Innab, reviewed after he noticed the cat had gone missing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/15\/stolen-new-york-city-bodega-cat\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two people appeared to take three-month-old Jabal the kitten in plain view of a surveillance camera Owners of a New York City bodega on Monday were holding out hope that they would be reunited with their store\u2019s kitten after a couple passing by the store days earlier appeared to abduct the cat in plain view &#8230; <a title=\"A Brooklyn bodega cat was stolen \u2013 and a community has rallied to try to find him\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/15\/a-brooklyn-bodega-cat-was-stolen-and-a-community-has-rallied-to-try-to-find-him\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about A Brooklyn bodega cat was stolen \u2013 and a community has rallied to try to find him\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}