@pocketmasseycat mystery continues with new clues

Pocket, Massey Wellington’s cat, has been around since 2014. Photo / Massive

It’s been two years since the mystery of who runs the Pocket Instagram fan account started, and the owner is ready to give us another hint.  

Pocket is Massey Wellington’s campus cat, usually roaming the Co-Lab and running away from pestering students just trying to love her.  

Sometime this week, the Pocket Instagram owner will leave one clue outside Co-Lab on the benches.  

She said you’ll find the clue on a painted rock.  

She specified that you can’t hang around and try and catch her - don’t ruin the fun people! 

In August last year, I spoke to the anonymous owner over the phone.  

We found out that the owner is a girl with short dyed hair, a now third-year student with a degree that involves cameras, and her wrists click when she moves them around.  

She also cleared up that she in no way works for Massey or the student association.  

This time around, I convinced her to play two truths and a lie with me.  

She said, “I’m from Christchurch, I have tattoos, and I study screen arts.”  

After running the account for almost two years, the owner said, “I’m an old fart like Pocket now”.  

But she isn’t as slick as she wishes after she had outed herself to three different people.  

She was showing a classmate some work on her phone and accidentally opened her Instagram to the Pocket account.  

She said, “They noticed that it was Pocket and said ‘oh wait you’re the one who runs the Instagram’.”  

She said five people knew altogether, all of which either work or study at Massey.  

As she is now in her final year of her degree, she wanted to pass the account on to someone when she graduates.  

She was still debating whether to reveal herself when she graduates or keep it a secret forever.  

She admitted that in the early days of the account when people would DM her and ask who she was, she would throw them off by saying it was a group of people.  

She also wanted to mention to Massive’s editor Leila, that she is low key salty that she doesn’t get to write the Pocket unsolicited advice.  

Pocket has been hanging around Massey since 2014, and while many people have claimed she belongs to them, an owner was never found.  

When she turned up, the Massive editor Morgan Browne was very fond of Pocket and it wasn’t long before food bowls were put out.  

However, Pocket has caused a fair bit of trouble.  

Past staff member, Caitlin Barlow-Groome told Massive last year that Pocket ran away when she looked after her over Lockdown.  

She said, “Someone left the door open and I cried because I thought I lost Pocket.”  

She said, “I was yelling to my neighbours ‘we’ve just moved but I lost a cat and it’s my work cat’. Then my partner took me for a walk and I cried cause I was so worked up that I lost Pocket.”  

Nine hours later, Pocket returned back like nothing had happened.