Fay Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 RSPCA - official (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) We are searching for the owners of a French cat who has turned up in a Buckinghamshire village. He was seen wandering around Cosgrove, Milton Keynes and had a French micro-chip registered to an address in Normandy! Unless a local owner can be found, with the appropriate vaccination certificates and pet passport, the feline will have to go into quarantine for six months before he can be re-homed.We really hope that this appeal will ring a bell with someone. Anyone with any information about this cat should call our local branch office on 01908 611179He's a beautiful big, fluffy ginger and white boy - anybody in Normandy know anyone who has recently taken such a cat to the UK? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WendyG Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 Might he possibly have been a stowaway| WendyG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 Have you tried calling the owners in France (just in case he was a stowaway) or the vets in that locality in France as it is likely that they could know what has happened, our french vet kept good records. I must say that our cat still has his french micro chip, seems no point in changing it and yet he came across quite legally and we have been back almost three years now. And he did go missing once.I find most of my french phone numbers on this web page.http://www.pagesjaunes.fr/pagesblanches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hereford Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 Try PM to Will - it might be his Judie's. ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judie Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 No, unfortunately not ours. But thanks anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mustang boss 302 Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 I can not believe that we get our animals chipped and that the animals owner is not on some register somewhere, I expect if it were to have had rabis and bit someone there would be a way they would have traced the owner? I have 2 dogs both chipped and if they went missing I would hope to god to get a call saying they had been found, MAN it realy makes me mad.I hope they find the owner someone is panicing some where.Fair play to you for putting an alert on here to find the owner.SORRY, have just reread the post and see an address in Normandy was registered, but not in the UK, I assume a note has been posted To that address on account the owners return to France within the next 6 months? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loiseau Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 I have never moved an animal across the Channel, so do not know the processes involved on arrival in UK, but would an animal's microchip not be scanned at point of entry? And would you not have to say where you were taking the animal to in the UK? If so, there may be a record there if the RSPCA got in touch with DEFRA or whoever.Somebody must look at documents in the UK, otherwise why all that desperate last-minute stuff about making vet's appointment and getting certification before leaving France?Angela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fay Posted December 17, 2010 Author Share Posted December 17, 2010 Hi Angela!I suggested to the RSPCA that they get in touch with DEFRA for that very reason - I am sure the chip number would link to a Pet Passport and more info, including when and/or whether he arrived legally.It seems they know the cat is called Tommy,and the owners have a British-sounding name, but he's been wandering about Cosgrove for four years now...As I've been typing this, the story of Tommy has just been broadcast on the Chris Evans Radio 2 show! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Should be put down immediately as a rabies risk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fay Posted December 18, 2010 Author Share Posted December 18, 2010 Yeah, right. Hahahahahaha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fay Posted December 18, 2010 Author Share Posted December 18, 2010 That was a joke, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fay Posted December 18, 2010 Author Share Posted December 18, 2010 I trust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loiseau Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 QUOTE...he's been wandering about Cosgrove for four years now...END QUOTEHi Faye!Four YEARS! Well, it doesn't seem to be worth the authorities worrying about rabies then. If he was going to develop it, he would have surely done so by now.Poor thing, in this cold. But cats are pretty good at feeding themselves, and at finding a corner in which to keep warm.Angela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mustang boss 302 Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 I think after walking around a village in the UK for the last 4 years makes it a low risk, And personaly I hope your remark about having the poor homeless (pet) put down was tonge in cheek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fay Posted December 18, 2010 Author Share Posted December 18, 2010 Good news from RSPCA, it seems his owners have been traced. Brits, in the UK, no further info as yet. But sounds like there may be a happy ending! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loiseau Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Excellent news!Fingers crossed for the cat.Angela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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