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Mariane RIAUTE
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” Which has been about ten cats that disappeared alone in Verfeil the last three weeks. “This is the observation made by a resident of this town near Toulouse, where a mysterious phenomenon seems to be spreading since the beginning of the summer of 2024.
Recently on a Facebook group of Verfeil residents, calls for help from owners of lost cats keep coming. If the owners are concerned, the reasons for such disappearances are several.
Strange disappearances
Mimo and Chips, the two cats of Amandine, who live near Avenue de la Comtesse de Ségur in Verfeil, disappeared between 14 and 15 July 2024.
“What I find very strange is that both disappeared at the same time. Especially since it is not their habit to go far or for long,’ says the latter Toulouse news.
Ads posted on Facebook by concerned owners also describe cats not used to leaving their territory.
Thanks to a resident of the town, Amandine finally found Chip “far from his territory”, in some foliage. ” She is used to coming when called.but then… I had to call her several times before she stormed out, as if to make sure it was really me…”, she worries.
Despite searching roadsides, ditches, vets and even pounds, Amandine has yet to find any trace of Mimo. But Verfeil’s veterinary office told him that there are ” a significant number of cat disappearances recently in Verfeil. »
The malicious trail?
Amandine can’t stop thinking about an attempted theft. In this scenario, her “wildest” cat, Chips, would have managed to escape from his captors.
According to Pattes en cavale 31, the possibility of a malicious act cannot be ruled out, as in 2021, when a cat trafficking network was dismantled in Castelginest, near Toulouse.
The volunteers from Pattes en Cavale 31 recommend place a handrail in case of disappearanceso there is a trace of these waves of disappearance.
Sudden reappearances
For a week, Célia, another resident of Verfeil, had not heard from her cat, Jo. Monday, July 29, 2024, fifteen minutes before they were contacted by Toulouse newshis cat suddenly came home, on its own.
” It gave us a lot of stress, and every morning and evening I called him. We visited all our neighbors, but nothing… Having said that, almost all our neighbors told us that their cat had already disappeared for a week or even a month, only to suddenly reappear, more or less injured, says Celia .
Indoor cats
Paws on the Run 31 warns, “I noticed that when a cat generally returns several days or weeks later, it is because he was accidentally locked in a garage, a shed, a basement…”
Yes, Celia’s cat, returned emaciated, with a broken claw and woundedwhich does not surprise Pattes en Cavale 31: “In this case, the cats return home emaciated because they were hungry and confined, wounded because they tried to escape, and exhausted because they did not stop meowing . »
It is also advisable when you go on vacation to check this type of place in your home to avoid this type of situation.
Many other theories
Falling from a balcony, encountering a fox or a car… There are many reasons.
“In my opinion, the path of evil is not the most believable. There are so many other optionsthat I think we will never know where he was… Here there are a lot of field mice, rabbits… maybe he simply got lost while hunting,’ she ponders.
She also warns of false promises: “I received five messages from strange accounts offering to find my cat through dowsing. I believe in animal communication, butthere are also people who take advantage of people’s distress, you have to be careful. »
Paws on the Run 31 concludes: “We must not forget that a cat that is not neutered can alsogo looking for a woman and get lost, or that a curious cat can quiteget into a car. And when he comes down, he is lost. »
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