Richmond, Virginia — At a Lowe’s in Richmond, Virginia, store manager Mike Sida has always had a favorite employee: Francine the cat.
“She wasn’t quite as friendly in the very beginning,” Sida told CBS News. “But after a little while, she found her way into a lot of people’s hearts, I guess you could say.”
Cats can do that. For nearly a decade, this former stray was a constant presence in the garden department. She’d become a local celebrity. Then one day, a few months ago, Francine vanished…