A nocturnal meow unveils the extraordinary journey of a cat, lost months ago and far away from her homeland.
By opening the door of her house to a cat who was looking for shelter and food, a volunteer from Manche was far from suspecting that her surprise guest lived 500 kilometers away.
Charlène Lamusse is a volunteer at Les Chats d’Hébéc’ in Thèreval (50). At the end of November, reports Ouest France , she was at home when she heard meowing at her window. It was neither her cat nor the 2 other felines that she temporarily welcomed for the association. An adorable kitten with a black dress and green eyes was asking for shelter for the night and some food. The hostess naturally offered her what she needed.
Jo Sanson , president of Chats d’Hébéc’ , arrived the next day and passed the cat through an identification chip reader. She did detect one, but it was established and registered across the Channel and not in France.
The association’s team then remembered that they had been contacted about a lost cat while she was accompanying her Irish owners on vacation in Normandy a few months earlier. Jo Sanson was finally able to reach her mistress Barbara Fallon who burst into tears upon hearing the news.
She and her husband Gerry White were desperate to find their feline friend named Kitty , who disappeared last summer as the couple were about to take the ferry back to Cherbourg-en-Cotentin . She had escaped from them in Hébécrevon , a former Manche commune that had become a delegated commune within Théreval , while they were trying to put her harness on. They returned to the scene several times afterward in the hope of locating her. No result.
Despair until Jo Sanson’s phone call
It was therefore with sadness in their souls that they returned home to Rosslare , a port town in the south-east of Ireland, without their pet.
Barbara Fallon and Gerry White had no news of Kitty until an unexpected phone call from Jo Sanson .
She also took care to organize the repatriation of the cat by contacting a ferry company providing the connection between Cherbourg-en-Cotentin and Rosslare . Kitty is expected to come home on Christmas Eve.