An inquisitive cat has gone missing from his Gravesend home after jumping into the back of a mattress delivery van.

Five-year-old Yogi was captured on CCTV sneaking into a Bensons for Beds van outside his house in Raleigh Close on Thursday morning.

From there the van went to Beltana Drive, Gravesend before heading to Rochester and Dartford.

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His owners Steph and Tom Giffard, and their daughters Sophie, two-and-a-half, and three-month-old, Lucie, are desperate to find him and are appealing to anyone who may have had a delivery that day.

Mrs Giffard, 28, said: “We don’t know where to start. We’re going to put more posters up around Beltana Drive in the hope he ended up there.

"It’s about a mile away, but if he stayed in the van because he was scared he could be anywhere.”

Watch: Yogi jumps into the delivery van

Yogi is friendly with the family’s neighbours and is often at other people’s houses for dinner so they only realised he was missing yesterday morning when they checked with their neighbours to see if he was at theirs.

Mrs Giffard said: “I thought I’ll have a look on the CCTV and you see him walk along the side of the van and jump in. The drivers then move the mattress around and shut the door. When I saw that I just burst into tears.”

She added: “He’s microchipped and has a collar with a name tag but if people see a well fed cat with a collar they might not think he’s lost.

“He is very missed by his brothers, Tiger and Marble, and our two little girls.”

The large silver-grey tabby has a white belly, chin and socks and Mrs Giffard said he is very friendly and loving.

The family have had Yogi since he was a kitten and it’s not the first time he has disappeared.

It’s exactly three years ago to the day that he returned home after being locked in a shed for eight days.

Mrs Giffard said: “He’s so inquisitive and he’s prone to doing stupid things.”

The family have spoken to Bensons for Beds, who were delivering them a new mattress, but have been told that the drivers did not see a cat in the van.

If you have seen Yogi, contact Mrs Giffard on 07412 502044.