Urgent Help Please.....

Thank you to whoever did that and for telling me! I had just sat down to copy and paste it over there!

Really appreciate the support , we are so desperate to crack this!

It has already been mentioned on Motorhome Fun and also on Twitter (X) and also on a French based online English news website The Connexion. Perhaps you could post on this Facebook Group "European Touring Caravan, campervan and Camping Friends" 

Given that this all happened in July of this year, had it been a couple from the UK they would have by now returned to the UK. Obviously there are lots of people who don't "do" Social media but it would surprise me if they had given up hope completely. 

David

This has already been posted on ukcampsite forum 3 weeks ago.

JK

I have also seen this posted elsewhere sometime ago, possibly facebook? I guess if the owner has not been found now they never will.

peedee

Thanks Peedee, there are a very determined group of us unwilling to accept that fact for now.

2 points which need to be said.

The first is a question of whether the owners will in fact be overjoyed at the return of the cat. As you haven't traced them you do not know what their reaction will be. They will have passed through various stages of grieving and personally speaking I would have accepted that my dear cat was deceased. Who knows, they may have got another cat and moved on. I know a dog owner who went out and acquired a puppy 2 days after his previous well loved dog passed away.

The second point is you mention that the cat will shortly be rehomed. Cats are very resilient creatures and hopefully the cat's current animal centre will ensure a good home for it. It's outlook is a hopeful one.

I appreciate your efforts are well meaning but at the end off the day the cat appears to have a future which from its point of view is a successful outcome.

It is a legal obligation in France for all cats to be identified by microchip.  If as the OP says the cat was checked and no chip was found it would have been classed as unidentified and i.a.w French policy may have been euthanized within 10 days.  

It seems that the owners of the cat have been found and will soon be reunited with their missing cat. This is according to a post shared on the Bailey Motorhomers Group Buying and Selling via another group! Apparently the owners are not British but French, might well explain the reason for there being no chip? So seemingly, All's Well That Ends Well.

David

It is a legal obligation in France for all cats to be identified by microchip.  However, that the owners have been found is excellent news , although I thought that dogs have owners and cats, being much superior, have staff 😉.

LLM, you are so right.....her staff have been found!!

Update:

I am elated to announce that against all odds the owners have been found!! They were found yesterday, just a matter of a couple of days before our time ran out.

We were surprised to find they are in fact a French family. They were devastated by the loss of their little girl and now cannot quite believe this happening, it really is a miracle.

I have been lucky enough, through encountering this story on Facebook at the start of November, when it first emerged, to become part of a small team, who met and have bonded  over the search for the owners of this precious girl. We are all Brits, spread across France, Spain, Scotland and England.

We have worked tirelessly, struggling to know why we just couldn’t find them, believing they were English. A huge amount of time and effort this week, by one of the team members who is bilingual, when she set about calling vets across France and happily encountered one who remembered scribbling a phone number down ages ago and the rest is history!

The family will be reunited with their little lady at the weekend and we will share pictures when we get them. Thanks must go to the French rescue who gave her shelter and care, not a certainty for French strays I believe.

I thank everyone for their responses, suggestions and support via my posts last weekend as we became increasingly desperate and apologies to all that I have ignored in the last 24 hours as the news broke to us and we rushed to establish it was actually fact.

So many people have cared about this little girl, her family and the outcome, thank you.