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So Upset. Stolen Cat.

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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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Original poster
tararabumdeay · 15/10/2020 19:39

It's not about me or 'the man with the foreign name'; it's about a sweet old soul who didn't ask for much but could be suffering now at the end of his sweet life.

I didn't get cats till I got to know Herbie a bit.

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stillsomewhatsheldonesque · 15/10/2020 19:43

Hope he finds his way back to you OP.

steff13 · 15/10/2020 19:51

@tararabumdeay

A man with a foreign name. Oh please!

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

What's "oh please," about the man with the foreign sounding name on FB? The FB page I saw with the posts about Herbie belonged to a man with a non-English name. Including the picture of the cat in the sun that you posted on this thread.
decoraters · 15/10/2020 19:51

For the hard of thought. I sent a pack from me to work to Hemes to try to get the mum to get it.

Ok, I'm really hard of thought. Please tell me why you did that? You said the Hermes driver came every day for months to your cul de sac so why did you fell that you needed a 'sting' parcel to get them to come to your cul de sac?

decoraters · 15/10/2020 19:53

@quest1on

As for posting “details,” well how else will the cat be found?

The 'details' differ between here and Facebook on a few points, surely if OP truly wants to find the cat giving the same, therefore correct, details would be w good course of action?

Lovebug06 · 15/10/2020 19:54

Hope you get herbie back op I'd be devestated. Keep sharing about him on social media. And please do comment on hermes Facebook or twitter pages even if it's a comment on one of their posts. I don't even bother calling or emailing now, I just do that, if no reply do it again. They soon reply anyway as they don't want other people seeing anything negative.

GoldenOmber · 15/10/2020 19:54

What's "oh please," about the man with the foreign sounding name on FB? The FB page I saw with the posts about Herbie belonged to a man with a non-English name. Including the picture of the cat in the sun that you posted on this thread.

Maybe OP's partner? She says 'our cat'.

Original poster
tararabumdeay · 15/10/2020 19:57

Steff, don't persue Detective as a career. A non English name is not grounds for suspicion.

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TBHno · 15/10/2020 20:03

Op, I get that you're upset. I would be too. I hope you get Herbie back.

However, you really shouldn't post identifying info about someone who hasn't consented to it, especially when they aren't here to tell their side of the story.

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tararabumdeay · 15/10/2020 20:13

I 'felt' I needed to send a parcel from my address to my work address to see whether the Hermes driver mum and Izzy, who had taken Herbie the day before, would tun up to collect it.

They didn't! Really it doesn't matter. I tried to do something that didn't work. I'm trying to do anything whatsoever now and it's not about me and what I want. It's about Herbie and what he needs.

He has lived with us for approx 12% of his life and has lived here for 98% of it.

It's cruel what they've done.

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Warpdrive · 15/10/2020 20:16

Hermes should have recorded Right to Work documentation, usually copy of passport, for all their employees - Its a legal obligation. So if they cooperate (and they may have to be compelled to cooperate) the authorities should be able to track them down.

Original poster
tararabumdeay · 15/10/2020 20:19

Thank you Warpdrive.

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Feminist10101 · 15/10/2020 20:41

@Warpdrive

Hermes should have recorded Right to Work documentation, usually copy of passport, for all their employees - Its a legal obligation. So if they cooperate (and they may have to be compelled to cooperate) the authorities should be able to track them down.
They would, if their drivers were employed.

They aren’t.

decoraters · 15/10/2020 20:58

I 'felt' I needed to send a parcel from my address to my work address to see whether the Hermes driver mum and Izzy, who had taken Herbie the day before, would tun up to collect it.

But why? They came MOST DAYS FOR MONTHS. Why did you think you needed to sting them?

They didn't! Really it doesn't matter.

I know they didn't, but it does matter. It makes no sense

caringcarer · 15/10/2020 21:16

Know just how upset you.must be. My sons cat we think was stolen on September 13th. She is Bengal. We contacted vet as she is microchipped, speyed and has a collar with our phone number in. Vet told us a Maincoon went missing on same day and 20 houses away. I know that one too. Another neighbour had her Maincoon go missing a week later. The vet says some cats are stolen to order. We went out every day for 2 weeks looking for her. The vet told us the cat thief will want to breed from her but when they find out she has been speyed will kick her out onto the streets. I am so worried because she hates fireworks and Nov is fast approaching. I hope you get your cat back. Cat homes are full of cats wanting a good home and cat thieves steal our beloved cats.

attillathenun · 15/10/2020 21:39

Go to the press OP. A work colleague had their dog stolen by an amazon driver and they had it plastered all over the media, within a week the dog was handed back after Amazon investigated

SBTLove · 15/10/2020 21:47

@tararabumdeay
Please post on all your local FB groups and lost pets one too. Can you find what depot the driver worked out of?
Contact microchip company and have him
flagged stolen, that way if he’s picked as a stray or scanned by a vet or rescue you will get him back.

SBTLove · 15/10/2020 21:49

Two FB groups to get you started

So Upset. Stolen Cat.
Ulpo · 15/10/2020 21:58

I know someone whose dog was stolen by an Amazon driver a few years ago.

I hope you get him back.

copperoliver · 15/10/2020 22:15

emilyfrost
Reported. You should not be posting such personal details about this driver or their family.
Surely if someone is a thief naming and shaming them is a good thing.
That's the trouble with the country to soft on bad people and do Gooders who try to stick up for the lowlifes human rights. People who don't behave humanly don't deserve human rights. X

AlternativePerspective · 15/10/2020 22:22

Surely if someone is a thief naming and shaming them is a good thing. innocent until proven guilty. We have no idea whether this person has actually done anything wrong, aside from which the daughter in question is a child.

But for all we know this could just be the OP on some kind of personal vendetta against these people.

emilyfrost · 15/10/2020 22:58

copperoliver Nobody knows for certain what’s actually happened, so of course it’s not okay to post their personal details.

decoraters · 15/10/2020 23:13

@copperoliver

That's the trouble with the country to soft on bad people and do Gooders who try to stick up for the lowlifes human rights. People who don't behave humanly don't deserve human rights.

Who is a lowlife? There is literally no evidence at this stage that confirms these people stole the cat.

Runningjump · 16/10/2020 01:46

@decoraters

I 'felt' I needed to send a parcel from my address to my work address to see whether the Hermes driver mum and Izzy, who had taken Herbie the day before, would tun up to collect it.

But why? They came MOST DAYS FOR MONTHS. Why did you think you needed to sting them?

They didn't! Really it doesn't matter.

I know they didn't, but it does matter. It makes no sense

Fucking hell. How dense can you get?

The sting parcel was a way to guarantee for a parcel to be delivered and to know what time to expect them.

Leannethom85 · 16/10/2020 02:19

post it on social media that your little pal has gone missing and suspect someone has took him, without calling person thief make out they may have been last to see him. I hope you get your pet back though, it's dreadful that there is people out there who steal other people's tiny family members