Jonathan and Natasha McCurrach, from British Columbia, are begging for people to stop calling them. For over a year, the couple has been fielding dozens of calls from strangers, claiming they have found the couple’s cat, Torbo. There’s just one problem: Their cat’s name is Mouser and he’s not missing. The couple says sometimes they receive as many as six calls a day, as well as voicemails from people saying they’ve found their cat. After several months of trying to figure out why they were getting these calls, Jonathan asked a caller how he got their number. The caller explained that the number was listed on a t-shirt styled to look like a missing cat poster. It turns out that a New York clothing company called Wisdumb printed the t-shirt and made up the number. The company assured Jonathan that the use of a real number was not intentional. The shirt has since been removed from their website. Some phone numbers have been set aside in North America for fictional use, all starting with the number 555. Unfortunately, like Wisdumb, not all companies use the 555 number. Natasha said she's hesitant to change her number because it's a 604 area code, which was B.C.'s first area code and today is hard to get. “I’ve had my number for 20 years and don’t want to change it,” she said. “I’ll just keep not answering."
