Find Gelsomina
Went missing 6/13/25 near
Thomas Avenue, Riverton, NJ
Last confirmed sighting via Ring:
6/16/25 near Thomas and Park; possible sighting 6/18/25 on Lippincott - TBD; Possible sighting Harrison near Thomas - TBD. The cat sighted in the CVS/Riverton School area is a male grey tabby. Gellie is a brown female tabby with a red diamond on top of her head. People on both sides of the tracks in Riverton, we are so grateful for all your help! Please put out extra water during this heatwave. Thank you!
Lynne: 979-220-2391
Howard: 979-220-5348
About Gelsomina
Distinguishing Features and Characteristics
Gelsomina escaped the house on 6/13/25. Our current search streets are Thomas Avenue, Midway, 7th Street, Park Avenue, Linden Avenue, Lippincott Avenue, and due to a new possible sighting on 6/18/25, Highway, 8th Street, Cinnaminson Street Riverton (not to be confused with Cinnaminson Avenue Palmyra), Main Street, and as of 7/3/25, the area around Riverton Public School.
Gelsomina (aka Gellie - pronounced "Jelly") is a tabby/tortie mix with a white chin, a red diamond on the top of her head, polydactyly (extra toes), large-ish ears, a Roman nose that bends at the tip, a granuloma (allergy bump) on her bottom lip, and primordial pouch (extra belly skin). Escaped indoor cats unaccustomed to the rigors of the outdoors tend to lose weight very quickly, so she may look scrappier than these photos!
We have met one kitty on who resembles Gelsomina, but that kitty has no extra toes, and no red diamond on the top of the head. Thank you to the girl who found that one, so we can rule it out.
Gelsomina is very sweet, spayed, up-to-date on her vaccinations, microchipped (chip #985112000341220), and loved beyond measure by her owners. She is an indoor only cat and very afraid right now. She had no collar on at the time of escape.
Weight loss from being outdoors can alter the appearance of an escaped indoor cat. If you think it's Gellie, and if you've managed to catch her, and you're not sure if it's her, and if you can't get in touch with Lynne or Howard right away, take her to a veterinarian or a shelter where they can scan the kitty. If she scans chip #985112000341220, then it's Gelsomina, even if she looks a little worse for wear than in these photos!
Her meow is soft and high-pitched, and she squeak-purrs, sounding like she needs a new fan belt. <3 She loves Churu-type squeezy treats and water. She drinks a LOT. Her blood work shows no signs of diabetes, but Gelsomina loves her some water!
She's also a skin cancer kitty (treated and closely monitored), so if you're lucky enough to have a hands-on experience with her, you will feel what seems like some scabs here and there beneath her coat. They are, in fact, little patches of cancerous cells. Please refrain from picking at them. The daily monitoring of the skin cancer is one of the reasons and we really want her back ASAP.
And Gellie has allergies. By this time, without her allergy medications, the granuloma on her bottom lip may be extra pouty, and she may have licked her itchy belly extra, so she may have sparser fur on her belly.
Truly, she is loved ever so much. Thank you for keeping an eye out!
A Message from the Search Team
If you see her, please don't chase her. If she can be coaxed indoors, great! If not, please contact us right away. Our contact info is at the top and bottom of this page. If you have Ring camera videos that you suspect might be her, please contact us right away and send them to us.
For anyone helping with the search for Gellie, please leave extra water out on the ground level, and up on the porch. Summer is getting hotter. Thank you so much!
Special thanks goes out to The Porch Club of Riverton, Riverton Free Library, The Early Bird, Juanita's Mexican Cuisine, Brewery Thirty-Three, Riverton Health & Fitness Center, Revive Cafe, Nelly Bly's Olde Tyme Ice Cream Parlour, and Milanese Pizza for hosting our posters! We know your community shout-out spaces are limited and precious, and your support means the world to us.
What's been done so far? Flyers, PawBoost with SmartMatch activated (a fabulous resource!!), boots on the ground, humane traps, staying in touch with locals who care for feral kitties, making the porch smell more like home with Gellie's favorite things, and, well, this website! The family is open to and grateful for all prayers.
The porch situation is evolving, as a young racoon has become our new "helper" and a territorial outdoor cat has decided to mark Gellie's things.
The good news is the traps are very and quickly effective! The bad news is, we've caught only feral kitties, who were promptly turned in for TNR, or released if found to be already treated. Actually, that's not such bad news. The ones turned in are getting the veterinary care they need, possibly for the first time in their lives. We love our ferals, too! But it's Gellie we really want.
We're also going to be checking in regularly with shelters to see if she's been brought in. <3
Gellie is wonderful.
Her owners can't wait to welcome her home!
She doesn't want to be outside. She wants her Churus!
Please remember her little face!
Distinguishing Features:
Large ears, red diamond on the top of her head, white mouth/chin, granuloma on her bottom lip.
She also has polydactyly (extra toes) and a primordial pouch (extra tummy skin), which may have shrunk over the weeks. Her little meow is quiet and high-pitched.
Special Care
What Gellie Loves:
Water, and lots of it! She loves catnip, Temptations crunchies, and Churu squeezy treats!
Most of all, she loves her quiet time. So she's most likely to be sighted by humans around dusk or before dawn when things are very quiet!
She also loves her radiator. <3
Thank you so much!
Your help as a neighborhood is so touching. We can't tell you how much your tips, your own search efforts, and your willingness to allow us onto your properties to search means to us, and we will never forget your kindness. You truly are wonderful neighbors. And for those of you sharing your Ring camera videos, we love those! Even if we don't have her back in the house yet, those videos are so reassuring, and they help us to modify our search radius! Please, if you see Gellie, contact us (info below) right away with the time and location. Thank you.
Lynne
(Gelsomina's Mom)
979-220-2391
Howard
(Gelsomina's Dad)
979-220-5348