SOS appeal to find the owners of a cat recently found in a service station in Normandy, France but whose owners tragically can not be traced. We are also appealing for people with contacts in the UK media to help get this story covered. Full details below.
Some British people travelling in a camper van lost their 3-legged tortoiseshell cat (one leg had been amputated) in July this year (2023) at a service station called “Aire des Haras au Sap André 61” on the A28 Autoroute (motorway) in Normandy, France.
They returned to the service area several times to look for her and left posters in the petrol station and food area.
In August, on one of their visits, they were told that a tortoiseshell cat had been found run over and killed in the area and it was thought to be their cat. After this they stopped going back there and the posters were all thrown away.
However we now know that the cat who was run over had 4 legs so wasn’t their cat.
Fast forward to early November (a few days ago) and a truck driver (who it turns out was there when the British people lost the cat originally so knew all about her) pulls into the service station and finds her. He’s sure it’s her since she has 3 legs, just like the missing cat. He picks her up and contacts local rescue groups who take her to the vet only to find that she doesn’t have a chip (and an X-ray is done to ensure the chip hasn’t migrated and shows definitively that there is no chip). So there is no way of contacting the owners other than to appeal on social media which has been done but the owners haven’t been located.
We do not know if the owners live in France or the UK. The fact that she doesn’t have a chip leads us to believe that they may live in France but we also know that on rare occasions microchips fall out.
I am hoping that the media will cover this story and help us to reunite her with her family. And please everybody share as far and wide as possible on social media.
Contact - you can private message me here on Facebook or e-mail to pepeperkins at hotmail.com.
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There are some suggesting that this is a scam. How did an unchipped cat travel to France? Cats in France who have seen a vet are registered and
chipped too, and this cat had had leg amputated. I hope that the owner is found though if this poor cat is really lost.
Quote: Originally posted by happybonzo on 07/11/2023
I thought that cats (and dogs for that matter) had to have a microchip so I have wondered about this may not be all that it is made out to be
Where we live in rural France the liklehood of a cat or dog being chipped is pretty low - and vets have enough on with cows / pigs / sheep / goats / chickens / ducks / geese - not to mention the odd boar / deer enclosure.
Quote: Originally posted by happybonzo on 07/11/2023
I thought that cats (and dogs for that matter) had to have a microchip so I have wondered about this may not be all that it is made out to be
Where we live in rural France the liklehood of a cat or dog being chipped is pretty low - and vets have enough on with cows / pigs / sheep / goats / chickens / ducks / geese - not to mention the odd boar / deer enclosure.
I'm not sure about that. Our (very) rural vet in France insisted that when our neighbour took a feral cat she had befriended in to be sterilised and treated for cat flu that it was registered on ICAD and registered to her address. I think if they escape the vet's attention they may remain unregistered, but if they need treatment they will be registed and chipped.
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I would like to thank everyone who mobilized to find the owners of the little kahina, especially sue and Penelope, the advert was aired in Spain, England, Ireland, Scotland and even the Canary Islands, in the newspapers and the BBC
Owners have finally been found, will be coming from Picardie, Saturday to be reunited
Sad for Hamid the roadie who saved him and was ready to adopt him.
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Topic: Lost Cat
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