RUMFORD – Morris is missing, and Ronda, Chris and Audrey want him back.

The 5-year-old caramel-colored tabby with yellow eyes and a friendly disposition went missing on Monday morning from the yard of Ronda and Chris Shaw on Somerset Street.

“I really expected to find him by now,” Ronda said Wednesday afternoon.

Morris, a 12- to 15-pound family pet, was wandering in the family’s yard when Randi Marston of Roxbury was walking by, having just left the nearby high school.

According to Ronda, about the time the 19-year-old picked up the cat, a car came by. Into the car went Marston and Morris.

“My neighbor, Sandy Gautreau, called me. She said Randi was on the street, talking to and petting Morris, put him down, then the white car came. She then picked up the cat and got into the car. Sandi got the license number,” Ronda said. “I really appreciate what Sandy did.”

A Rumford Police Department spokesman said Marston, 19, was summoned on a charge of theft.

Police officer Matt Noyes found the white car at Marston’s home in the Frye section of Roxbury.

Apparently, when Marston got out of the car, her family dog chased the cat into the bushes. So far, no one has been able to find him.

Audrey Thompson, who lives with her daughter, Ronda, and her husband, Chris, traveled to the Marston home on Wednesday with a friend in search of Morris.

“That cat helped me recuperate when I moved in a year ago. He was in my lap two-thirds of the time,” Thompson said. “I went up this morning (Wednesday) and called him, but still no response.”

The Shaws spent many hours looking for their pet on Monday and Tuesday.

“I really thought when the police called to say they had found the white car, they would have found Morris,” Ronda said.

The Shaws have contacted a local veterinarian and the animal control officers for Roxbury and Rumford in their search.

Ronda said Marston’s mother, Kelly Marston, offered her another cat, and Marston offered her a kitten to replace Morris.

Reached by telephone Wednesday night, Randi Marston said she didn’t believe anyone owned Morris because he wasn’t wearing a collar or tags. She said her dog chased the cat when she got out of the car when she got home.

“I saw the fluffy cat and I didn’t think it belonged to anyone. I offered the Shaws a kitten from a friend,” she said.

She declined to identify the person who drove her home, saying only that he was a friend.

“I don’t want the kitten,” Ronda said Wednesday afternoon. “We’re not sure whether Morris is alive or dead.”

Chris and Ronda have distributed posters throughout the Frye neighborhood asking for help in finding their pet. The couple have received calls from friends and neighbors asking about Morris.

“There is really community interest,” Ronda said.

Anyone who finds Morris, a cat with many interesting qualities, including a preference to drink water with his paws, is asked to call the Shaws at 364-2876.