CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – James and Kate Scales’s pet cat, Elanor, disappeared on Halloween. Over the next four months, the Scales hung laminated flyers around their Woodbrook neighborhood and kept looking for the black and orange tortoise shell cat with the white striped nose.
But when the winter months brought some of the coldest and most sustained freezing temperatures the area has seen in recent memory, optimism that Elanor would return home began to fade.
“I thought about, ‘Do I need to take down those signs?” James Scales told Cville Right Now. “I didn’t go take them down because I still hoped.”…