08/22/2026
🚨 DISTURBING DEVELOPMENT IN JACO’S DISAPPEARANCE Bill Taylor, HAVE YOU SEEN JACO? 🚨
I need the Sierra Madre community’s help.
After posting that our cat JACO is missing, a member of this group contacted me with screenshots and information that have completely changed the circumstances surrounding his disappearance.
Some of you apparently saw these posts when they originally appeared. I did not.
WHAT WE NOW KNOW:
In June, Sierra Madre resident Bill Taylor posted publicly:
“Anybody know the name Jaco Lopez? Cat or man?”
When someone asked what he meant, he responded:
“Cat collar.”
That is our Jaco.
Jaco wears a collar with a purple heart-shaped identification tag clearly displaying JACO LOPEZ.
The reverse side contains our address and telephone number and says:
“I HAVE A HOME ,DON’T TAKE ME.”
So there could have been absolutely no confusion about whether Jaco had an owner.
He knew Jaco’s name because he read his collar. Yet nobody from our family was ever contacted.
Then, in a later Facebook post, Bill Taylor wrote about a “big headed gray cat” that kept returning.
He publicly stated:
“He has been hit with my hat, sprayed with a hose and hit pretty good with a rock on the shoulder blades. He’s back.”
He then wrote that he had previously trapped two cats and driven them to humane societies in different counties.
The post ends with:
“Last warning to the owner. I am about to rent another trap.”
According to the community member who contacted me, she was so disturbed by this post that she reported it to the Sierra Madre Police Department on August 16.
She tells me that officers responded, that she spoke with an officer afterward, and that the officer documented what had been posted. She has provided me with the officer’s contact information, and I will be following up with law enforcement regarding Jaco’s disappearance.
And now Jaco is missing.
Jaco is not a stray.
He is 5 years old, neutered, vaccinated, not aggressive, and deeply loved. He normally leaves home during the day and comes back every evening. Our neighbors know him and see him regularly.
This time he didn’t come home.
I want to be very clear: I am not publicly accusing anyone of causing Jaco’s disappearance without evidence.
But considering that these posts specifically reference Jaco Lopez, describe striking a gray cat with a rock, discuss previously trapping cats and transporting them to other counties, and state an intention to obtain another trap, our family has every reason to ask:
Bill Taylor ,HAVE YOU SEEN JACO?
Did you see Jaco recently?
Did you trap him?
Did you transport him somewhere?
Did you surrender him to a shelter?
If you know anything about where Jaco is, please tell us.
If anyone in this community remembers these posts, has additional screenshots, witnessed interactions involving Jaco, or has relevant security-camera footage, PLEASE CONTACT ME.
And if anyone knows of a shelter particularly outside our immediate area or in another county where a gray male cat “ BRITISH SHORT HAIRED “ matching Jaco’s description may have been surrendered, please let me know immediately.
Preserve screenshots, videos and other information and send them to me so they can be provided to law enforcement.
This is no longer simply about a cat who wandered away.
Jaco has a name.
Jaco has identification.
Jaco has a phone number on his collar.
Jaco has a home.
And Jaco has a family desperately looking for him.
🐾 Bill Taylor, HAVE YOU SEEN JACO? 🐾
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