Fourteen-month-old Gizmo, learnt Tchaikovsky’s unmistakable tune when residents hummed it to him. He would sit on their shoulders, making them laugh with his singing.
Owner Jackie Stoddart, live-in warden at Somerville Court, in Waterlooville, Hants, was devastated after taking Gizmo into the garden where something spooked him and he flew off. He hasn’t been seen since. “I can’t tell you how upset we all are, it’s just not the same without him,” said Mrs Stoddart, 49.
“He was the light of all our lives. He mimics the sound of my bleeper going off, which is going to be very annoying to someone if they’ve got him.”
She added: “I was hoping he would appear but with the weather like this we’re really, really worried.”
Resident Diana Simpson, 74, said: “He’s lovely, gentle and very tame. He comes to all our dos and walks along our shoulders.”
Mrs Stoddart and her husband Clive have put up posters, but so far without success.
I was hoping he would appear but with the weather like this we’re really, really worried.
Fourteen-month-old Gizmo, learnt Tchaikovsky’s unmistakable tune when residents hummed it to him. He would sit on their shoulders, making them laugh with his singing.
Owner Jackie Stoddart, live-in warden at Somerville Court, in Waterlooville, Hants, was devastated after taking Gizmo into the garden where something spooked him and he flew off. He hasn’t been seen since. “I can’t tell you how upset we all are, it’s just not the same without him,” said Mrs Stoddart, 49.
“He was the light of all our lives. He mimics the sound of my bleeper going off, which is going to be very annoying to someone if they’ve got him.”
She added: “I was hoping he would appear but with the weather like this we’re really, really worried.”
Resident Diana Simpson, 74, said: “He’s lovely, gentle and very tame. He comes to all our dos and walks along our shoulders.”
Mrs Stoddart and her husband Clive have put up posters, but so far without success.