This is the sad, true story of a lost kitten, but it does have a happy ending.
A lady at work used to have a lot of ceramic animal figures scattered around her cubicle. Every day she would take each one down, clean it, and talk to it prior to placing it back on the shelf. Other than that eccentric action, she was a perfectly normal coworker and generally fun to be around. But the animals were the butt of many jokes during breaks and around the water cooler.
One day a little kitten figure disappeared. After searching her cubicle thoroughly (multiple times) she began calling people throughout the company, who happened to be nearby that day, to see if they had found her kitten. After several days she then began e-mailing a larger number of suspects to see if anyone found her kitten. Her efforts went on for several months, but dwindled as did her hope.
Then one day she got an e-mail from the kitten! Well, not directly from the kitten, but from an anonymous e-mail account. Attached to the e-mail was a picture of her kitten ... at an airport in France (we're in the U.S.). Every few weeks she would get another e-mail with a picture of her kitten in such places as Egypt, Denmark, Canada, Brazil, etc., with a little note telling her how much her kitten missed her. She would get so excited whenever an e-mail arrived and would print the picture and hang it in her cubicle. The jokes and the reputation of her kitten increased and were a frequent topic of conversation at work.
Secret background info: the person who took it had several relatives who travelled around the globe on business. It became a joke in that family that if anyone was travelling they had to carry the kitten along, take some pictures with the kitten in front of a recognizable landmark, then make sure to bring it back and pass it along to another relative who was leaving on a trip.
Roughly two years after its disappearance, the kitten magically appeared on a shelf in the office the original owner now resides it. It was behind some other items and she did not notice it for weeks. Until she got an anonymous e-mail with a picture of her kitten ... now sitting on her shelf. The e-mail said: "I'm back home now and cannot believe you didn't notice!"
