Francine’s tenure might be as long as any hardware store employee in Virginia—because this white, speckled stray cat wandered into the Lowe’s near Richmond in 2017, and has been a mainstay of the branch ever since.

“She’s the first stop for probably 75 percent of our customers,” Lowe’s store manager Mike Sida told the Washington Post .

“She’s extremely friendly, and she loves people. There’s a lot of people that come here just to visit Francine.”

But last month, the calico cat went missing and everyone was flooded with worry: Where’s Francine?

A missing pet poster was printed with her picture that advertised a $2,000 reward.

And Chas Nabi, who frequently visits Francine at the store, created a “Where’s Francine? ” Instagram page that quickly went viral, attracting almost 35,000 f

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