Family post reward for missing cat

WANTED: The Haglund-Turley family are offering a $250 reward in the hope of getting back their bengal asian leopard cat. It went missing after escaping from the Ladymead Boarding Kennels and Cattery while they were on holiday. PHOTO/FILE

Desperate to find their missing cat, the Haglund-Turley family is offering a $250 reward for its return.

The pedigree orange/red and black coloured bengal asian leopard cat, worth about $1000 and called Echo, went missing after escaping from Ladymead Boarding Kennels and Cattery early in January during the first day of the family's annual holiday.

The family returned from holiday the next day and have searched for their pet to no avail.

Two sightings in the Paierau Rd area were reported after the family's story appeared in the Times-Age, but nothing since.

Ross Turley estimates he has travelled hundreds of kilometres - spending the rest of his holidays and every night since, traipsing across paddocks and bushland areas searching.

"There are a lot of big paddocks out there.

"I think he is happily cruising the paddocks out there," Mr Turley said.

The children, Sophia, 9, Quinn, 7, Alexi, 5, and Reid Haglund-Turley, 4, were fretting for the cat, he said.

"They are really finding it hard. The kids have been crying in their beds at night.

"Alexi has been writing a journal and has written in it she wants Echo home," he said.

"They really want him back. We'll keep looking for him."

Mr Turley said that they would pay $250 to the person who found or returned Echo.

"We'll never give up. We just want him home."

If you have seen Echo or find him, call Mr Turley or his wife, Sarah, on (06) 377 3948 or (mobile) 021 2134401.