CORSICANA, Texas — A newborn boy is stable and “doing fine” after being stuffed in a handbag and abandoned Sunday evening near a North Texas home as temperatures dipped into the 40s, authorities say.

By NBC News staff

Corsicana police have appealed for the public’s help in identifying the infant and locating his mother.The baby was wrapped in a towel that was in a pillowcase inside a plastic bag inside a handbag, police said.

The bag was left outside the house of Mihoko Brown and her husband. They live on the corner of a dead-end street off busy State Highway 22. Their cat, Stinky, started sniffing around the door, alerting the couple to the package, police said.

“I put my ear to the door and heard something, and I barely opened the door and saw the bag,” Phillip Brown told the Corsicana Daily Sun. “I said, ‘Somebody’s left us a puppy in this bag.’ Then it started crying and I…