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So Upset. Stolen Cat.

254 replies

tararabumdeay · 14/10/2020 22:19

Hermes driver and her daughter took our cat on Thursday 8th Oct - we have witnesses.

After turning up every day for months they disappeard, with the cat. A different driver turned up to collet our 'sting'' parcel on Friday. Their job was advertised on Indeed the next day.

I know the girl is a teenager, not in school, called Izzy. I have the van reg. no. It's a 59 reg silver/blue transit.

Herbie is an old man who has lived here all his life. We took him in last winter when his original owner couldn't look after him anymore.

The police are on it but can't get information about the van nor contact Hermes.

AIBU to be so upset? I can usually cope with life's dificulties but his gentle, innocent soul must be so distressed and it's hurting.

Please, if anyone knows the driver and/or daughter, let me know where to get Herbie back so he can spend his last days in the home he knows.

So Upset. Stolen Cat.
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PinkSparklyPussyCat · 15/10/2020 11:55

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Crazybunnylady123 · 15/10/2020 11:56

@CupidStunt2020 if you can’t say anything nice don’t say anything at all.
My cat is my family and I’d be devastated to loose him. As would DP and the kids. Just wow!

Op why don't you plaster photos of the cat all over the web. Use next door app as well. Post leaflets everywhere you can. Don’t give up! Poor u!

ktp100 · 15/10/2020 12:02

Agree re Twitter - if you post let us know, I'm sure we'll all be happy to share and then hopefully they'll get twitchy and respond.

I'm so sorry, OP. I can't imagine how big a bastard you'd have to be to do take someone's pet.

MrsKingfisher · 15/10/2020 12:07

Get it on social media, tweet Hermes and put the reg plate on if you're 100% sure it's that car. Get people sharing far and wide. I hope Herbie is returned to you safe and well.

Dodie66 · 15/10/2020 12:45

Put it in the myhermes FB page. You can’t start a post on there but you can put a reply to one of their posts. It soon gets a response. I had problems with a parcel and couldn’t get in touch with them.they soon replied when I post on their Fb page and sorted it out

ripples101 · 15/10/2020 12:48

@AlternativePerspective

Well, quite apart from the fact this thread makes for bizarre reading, maybe the cat is actually their cat.

After all, OP said she took the cat in last year. Maybe the OP stole the cat and rapidly had it chipped to her and the delivery driver recognised it and came back for it...

After all, the cat wasn’t actually the OP’s was it? It just happened to arrive on her doorstep one day.

All the hysteria here makes me wonder whether the OP actually took the cat and is pissed off the original owners came and took it back.

And surely the police have better things to do than to go looking for some stray cat who essentially lives where it wants and has now probably been taken back by its original owners. You know, like fighting actual crime....

@AlternativePerspective

The OP said in her first post that she took the cat in last year when the original owner couldn’t look after him anymore.

diddl · 15/10/2020 12:58

"The OP said in her first post that she took the cat in last year when the original owner couldn’t look after him anymore."

Maybe the cat didn't belong to that person either?

It does sound as if they thought he was a stray/neglected.

Did you tell them to stop feeding your cat, Op?

LagneyandCasey · 15/10/2020 13:02

From ops original post

Herbie is an old man who has lived here all his life. We took him in last winter when his original owner couldn't look after him anymore.

From this I assume Herbie was previously owned by someone local to the op. A neighbour perhaps?

Hopefully op will be along to clear up some of these points and give us an update - hopefully a happy one.

CausingChaos2 · 15/10/2020 13:21

I have also looked Herbie up on Facebook and the owner (OP) looks to be a man with a foreign name so explains the unusual grammar.

OP, your post on Facebook needs to be shared to as many local groups as you can find. This would be your best chance to reach far and wide, to get an identification for these people. Is there any CCTV locally that may have captured their number plate?

Marmunia1975 · 15/10/2020 13:43

Please keep us updated! Poor little man.

decoraters · 15/10/2020 14:10

I have also looked Herbie up on Facebook and the owner (OP) looks to be a man with a foreign name so explains the unusual grammar.

There is no unusual grammar, just a couple of insults.

croberts1208 · 15/10/2020 14:21

I don't know if this has already been said but police don't count cats as a property. They can have many homes. Not what you want to hear and I'm terribly sorry that your cat has been taken. I would be distraught too.

madcatladyforever · 15/10/2020 14:24

Contact Hermes on every media site you can think of with the details, twitter, facebook, the lot. Shame them into action. They can't just go around stealing cats using their employers van. Its a sackable offence.
Don't stop until you get a reply.

Storyoftonight · 15/10/2020 14:28

In the nicest way possible OP...(and I'm so sorry for your cat....)

How much of this is fact and how much of it is what you think has gone on?

TulipsandDa1s1es · 15/10/2020 14:54

there are a lot of contradictions between this and the facebook version, so i suspect this is the facebook guys partner maybe? for example facebook says theyve owned Herbie 4 years and on here they say last winter.

good luck finding Herbie

steppemum · 15/10/2020 15:01

@croberts1208

I don't know if this has already been said but police don't count cats as a property. They can have many homes. Not what you want to hear and I'm terribly sorry that your cat has been taken. I would be distraught too.
this isn't entirely true, althoguh it gets quoted on many mn threads.

I think the law does allow that cats roam. But chipped cat, with a history of belonging to someone is considered to be property and if pursued, will always be returned to the chipped owner

TBHno · 15/10/2020 16:13

Please do keep us updated op. I'm curious to see how this will turn out...

CausingChaos2 · 15/10/2020 16:19

@croberts1208

I don't know if this has already been said but police don't count cats as a property. They can have many homes. Not what you want to hear and I'm terribly sorry that your cat has been taken. I would be distraught too.
Wrong.

’Theft Act 1968
Cats are regarded in law as property, so the theft of a cat is treated as an offence under the Act, in the same way as theft of any other property.

A cat that is lost or has strayed is generally regarded as the property of the original owner. It is therefore necessary to try to return a lost cat to its owner.’

www.cats.org.uk/help-and-advice/getting-a-cat/cats-and-the-law

user1471538283 · 15/10/2020 16:44

Nag the CEO of Hermes like mad. Constantly post on its Twitter feed. Let everyone know on any local Lost and found pets pages on Facebook. Hire someone to track this driver down if you can. I wonder because he's old they thought he was a stray.

Original poster
tararabumdeay · 15/10/2020 17:50

No news today - sob! The 'sting' parcel was selotaped to the door at work at 5:55pm yesterday when work was closed but I've asked techie to save the CCTV.

I haven't received the parcel yet but I didn't see the Caretaker today as I was at a different site.

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TheSpottedZebra · 15/10/2020 18:00

He's a cat that lives at your work?

Original poster
tararabumdeay · 15/10/2020 18:13

A man with a foreign name. Oh please!

The Hermes driver and Izzy knew he wasn't a stray because I told them.

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Giganticshark · 15/10/2020 18:22

I'm confused. Is he a work cat?

tararabumdeay · 15/10/2020 18:22

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tararabumdeay · 15/10/2020 18:28

Confirmed that the witness who saw the van identified the driver and Izzy.

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