– On 3 August, something happened that cannot be allowed to happen again. This is how the post of the desperate cat mother Hanne Leandersen begins on Facebook. She had lodged the grey-striped cat Hermione at the Tromsø cat hotel for a summer holiday stay. Kattehotell is a boarding house with board and lodging for cats, which cat owners can use to ensure that their furry family member is well while the owners are on holiday. Leandersen had been abroad. When she got home to pick up Hermione at the agreed time, she got a shock. She was already picked up. Hermione has been missing for 20 days. Cat mother hopes she will be found soon. Photo: private Lost in the forest Hermine is a slightly shy indoor cat that Leandersen has adopted from Animal Protection. Now it turned out that someone had checked out the wrong cat from the hotel. They thought it was their cat, but it wasn’t. And then Hermione was transported by the unknown to a place far away from her home in Tromsø. She was in a cottage field in Malangen in Balsfjord municipality. And not only that: the cat had been let out. Now she has been missing for 20 days. – Hermione is still missing, despite various measures and searches. She is unlikely to apply to people or buildings, and naturally has no opportunity to find her way home herself, says Leandersen. It’s big and airy for the cats, and they each have their own cage at night. But when the owners go to collect, they go inside and find their family member. There may be a change in that now. Photo: private Wants to change the routines Hermione’s stepmother understands that mistakes can happen. Leandersen still wants a guarantee from Tromsø cat hotel that they change their routines for delivery and collection of the cats, so that others do not have to experience the same. – With so many cats, it goes without saying that some cats can look very similar to each other, says the cat owner. Owner of Tromsø cat hotel, Anders Eilertsen, says this is a boring situation for all parties. – It is of course worst for the cat and the owner, but this is not beneficial for either party. The cat hotel is already looking at its routines. Today, people even go into the communal air yard and pick up their furry friend. – We are now considering whether we should require the animals to have a readable chip, and not rely on everyone bringing their own cat, he says. This is what the air farm at Marisletta gård looks like. Photo: Tromsø cat hotel Several have experienced it Also earlier this summer, there was a delivery error. According to Eilertsen, the cat’s owner had been a little unsure whether it was his cat, but ended up deciding that it was correct. They had gotten into the car and driven a mile before they started to react to the sound in the back seat. – They thought it was a strange sound, and they did not recognize the meow. When they came back and checked, they admitted that they had brought the wrong cat, explains the owner of the boarding house. This cat was mistaken for another. The owner is glad it came back. Photo: private Now Eilertsen hopes that Hermione will return again. – I hope the cat can be found. It was very unfortunate that it was released into the open when it first went wrong. Matron Hanne Leandersen also hopes people who may be nearby will help look for her. – She is very shy, and hardly wants to approach people. She can still approach strangers who sit down and hold out their hand so she can smell it. Published 23.08.2024, at 10.34 Updated 23.08.2024, at 11.03
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Was handed the wrong cat from the cat boarding house – news Troms and Finnmark
