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When a 6-year-old boy named Owen Lake accidentally left his beloved stuffed tiger Hobbes at Tampa International Airport Saturday morning, airport officials found it and produced a scrapbook of photos showing the toy posing in different parts of the facility. The scrapbook was then presented to the boy’s family when they returned from a trip to Houston.
In a statement, Tony D’Aiuto, the airport operations center manager, said he reassured Owen’s mother Amanda Lake that the toy was “on an adventure,” which included hanging out “outside by the air traffic control tower, buying gelato, working out at the employee gym, playing Jenga in the USO, hanging out with the firefighters, napping in a hammock by the Marriott pool, riding a luggage cart.”
The photos brought the boy’s mother to tears. “It was very, very sweet,” she said. “It was nice to get back and show him that Hobbes really had been on an adventure.”
Mini Horses and Toddler Friends May Be the Cutest Thing Ever Published in LIFE
![111961241.jpg 3-year-old cover girl Cynthia West with Chauncey.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/150123-mini-horse-01.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![111970906.jpg Ronnie getting sized up.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/150123-mini-horse-02.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![111961206.jpg Ronnie stands uncomfortably with normal horse collar. He eats only four pounds of hay a day compared to 40 pounds for draft horse.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/150123-mini-horse-03.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![111970964.jpg A young girl with Chauncey the miniature horse.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/150123-mini-horse-04.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![111970900.jpg Chauncey and 2 larger horses.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/150123-mini-horse-05.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![111970925.jpg Cedric being held by a trainer.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/150123-mini-horse-06.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![111970963.jpg Cynthia riding Cedric.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/150123-mini-horse-07.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![111970895.jpg Cynthia with two miniature horses at the Lilliput Ranch in California.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/150123-mini-horse-08.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![111970933.jpg Cynthia showing some love for Cedric.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/150123-mini-horse-09.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![111970885.jpg Ronnie and the Great Pyrenees are taken for a walk.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/150123-mini-horse-10.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
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