Cat Abandoned in Sterling Parking Lot

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The Loudoun County Department of Animal Services is seeking information regarding the identity of a woman who may have information regarding the possible abandonment of a cat in a parking lot in Sterling.

Animal Services received a complaint on Wednesday afternoon from the Walmart at 45415 Dulles Crossing Plaza, near the Dulles Town Center, regarding an abandoned cat.

Security video shows a silver four-door SUV pulling into to the store’s parking lot. A woman exits the vehicle with the cat in hand.

The approximately 8-year-old, female brown tabby, a domestic short-hair cat, appears to have been abandoned in a shopping cart in the parking lot of the store, with a bag of food, a green plastic bowl, and a black and white polka-dotted, king-sized pillow sham.

Any person with information pertaining to this incident, or the identity of the woman pictured in the photos here, is urged to contact Loudoun County Animal Services at 703-777-0406 or by email at animals@loudoun.gov.