Jim PostierMar 7
Lin Nah

Are you in France with a cat that used to live in Aotearoa NZ and the cat is missing?

A cat found in Antony France with a NZ chip. Someone posted in reddit hoping to reunite the cat with the cat''s owners/slaves.

Post with pic:

https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/1rm8cnc/nz_pussy_found_in_france/

Apparently also posted in NZers in France fb page.

#cat #cats #lechat #Aotearoa #NewZealand #NZ #Nouvelle-Zélande #France #francaise

Mar 7 at 5:04amWeb
Show threadJude🇵🇸Mar 7
@lin Cat's looking very bloody pissed off. 😅
Show threaddryadMar 7
@lin SO MANY QUESTIONS.
Show thread"Mediocre Bunny" EvelynMar 7
@aimee @lin
Same. Including who devised the last phrase in this URL from the alt text:
Photo sourced from this reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/1rm8cnc/nz_pussy_found_in_france/
Show threadDavid NashMar 7
@lin The cat in the rightmost picture is giving the picture-taker some classic cat side-eye. Kitty is very much not amused by things. Someone’s going to be waking up to a dead mouse at the end of the bed.
Show threadHtephMar 7
@dpnash @lin A dead mouse is a gift and a show of love! I would rather expect some vomit in a shoe ...
Show threadNgati Pakeha KuiaMar 7
@lin Wonder if he came from a Kiwi Sailing family. Some families cruise with their pets.
Show threadCarmen-LisandretteMar 7
@lin How in the...
Show threadVive LevantMar 7
@lin you may want to add #Caturday or the French version #Chamedi
Show threadCorentinMar 7
@lin poke @georgepenney, do you know of any missing cat belonging to NZ people from Aotearoa currently in France? :)
Show threadmarilynMar 7
@lin
Can't a cat do a little genealogical research without causing an international incident?!? https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/new-zealand-tunnellers-mascot-snowy-cat
New Zealand Tunnellers' mascot, Snowy the cat | NZ History

Soldiers of the New Zealand Tunnelling Company play with their mascot, Snowy the cat in Dainville, France.

Show threadLin NahMar 7
@marilyn You just reminded me Peter and Torty, the WWI survivors came to live in NZ https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/video/gallipoli-tortoise-great-war-story
Gallipoli tortoise Great War Story | NZ History

During her time working at the Aotea Convalescent Home in Cairo (1915-1919), New Zealand nurse Nora Hughes was given a tortoise by a wounded soldier who said he had found in the trenches at Gallipoli in 1915

Show thread"Mediocre Bunny" EvelynMar 7
@lin
You know, not everyone knows this, and many cats don't like doing it; but cats can swim.  🤣
Show threadLin NahMar 7

@Gorfram Meet Ginge the scuba diving cat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-egTV1nHqU This advert for ihug, a NZ ISP from 2000 (or late 1999). Unfortunately cat disappeared 🤔 in 2000 as per this June 2000 article https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/tv-cat-leaves-owner-bereft/W3P34WXQ3CFXXMETI5MLCN7GBY/

ihug is acronym for Internet home users group

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ihug

#nz #Ihug

NZ ad - the Ihug cat

YouTube
Show thread"Mediocre Bunny" EvelynMar 7
@lin
Hmm.. Did the cat disappear, or did it just take up retirement in France? 😜
Show threadDarth DeproMar 7
@lin
Give new meaning to letting the cat out of the bag
Show threadBohwaZMar 7
@lin
Isn't it required to file some paperwork when travelling with a pet?
Show threadSuricatMar 7
@lin #catsofmaston #fedicat #lostcat
Show threadDrPs𝕐  Mar 7
@lin @Souristine I’ve read about pets travelling by plane being lost in French airports. They travel with luggage, which is often handled without much care. And sometimes the box in which the cat travel breaks, and the cat escapes.
Antony is next to Orly, one of the two main Paris airports. Thought most international flights land in Roissy CDG, several tenths of km north, with Paris in the middle.
Show threadJess Mar 7
@YannnSud @lin @Souristine good guess I think.
Customs could know when the cat entered French territory
Show threadDrPs𝕐  Mar 7
@beatricejess @lin @Souristine I don’t know the process for animals. Customs are involved?
Show threadJess Mar 7
@YannnSud @lin @Souristine
Sometimes when they come from countries where there are diseases requiring quarantine.
Show threadJess Mar 7
@YannnSud @lin @Souristine
And sometimes quarantine is 40 days...
Show threadmillennial fulcrumMar 7
@lin skux alors!
Show threadLisPiMar 7
@lin I wonder where one is normally supposed to report pets like that.
Show threadKévin ⏚Mar 7

@lin generally if they're residents a local vet would have registered the chip/details with Icad https://www.i-cad.fr/

That being said Antony is where Orly airport is so it is entirely possible the cat fled from transport and maybe an airline knows something

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