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

[gorfram@beige.party]

@lin
You know, not everyone knows this, and many cats don't like doing it; but cats can swim.

[minemcg@mastodon.social]

@lin
Give new meaning to letting the cat out of the bag

[lin@mastodon.nz]

@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

ihug - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

#nz #Ihug

[bohwaz@mamot.fr]

@lin
Isn't it required to file some paperwork when travelling with a pet?

[tacitus@masto.bike]

@lin #catsofmaston #fedicat #lostcat

[lin@mastodon.nz]

@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

[gorfram@beige.party]

@lin
Hmm.. Did the cat disappear, or did it just take up retirement in France?

[yannnsud@piaille.fr]

@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.

[beatricejess@masto.bike]

@YannnSud @lin @Souristine good guess I think.
Customs could know when the cat entered French territory

[yannnsud@piaille.fr]

@beatricejess @lin @Souristine I don’t know the process for animals. Customs are involved?

[beatricejess@masto.bike]

@YannnSud @lin @Souristine
Sometimes when they come from countries where there are diseases requiring quarantine.

[beatricejess@masto.bike]

@YannnSud @lin @Souristine
And sometimes quarantine is 40 days...

[goblinquester@dice.camp]

@dpnash @lin A dead mouse is a gift and a show of love! I would rather expect some vomit in a shoe ...

[falcennial@mastodon.social]

@lin skux alors!

[kc@social.coop]

@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