The cat has puzzled animal rescue workers since it was handed into Moorcroft Veterinary Surgery last week after it was found wandering around the Park District in Weymouth. No ownership details could be traced other than the fact that the stray ginger tomcat was micro-chipped in Nice, France, in 2002.
It is believed the cat may have been abandoned by a foreign couple in December after reports of a cat being left in a guestroom at the Railway Tavern when a couple checked out and flew to Romania.
Now the cat rescue charity – Weymouth Paws – is desperately trying to raise the £1,300 to pay for the quarantine bills to ensure that the cat, aged between seven to 10 years, gets to stay in quarantine for six months and then re-homed.
Veterinary nurse Michelle Pavey said: “The cat has been classed as an illegal immigrant and has had to go into quarantine. There will be huge bills because he will have to be tested for rabies and have the necessary treatment. He is such a lovely cat and after the quarantine period he then can be re-homed hopefully.”
Legally, Trading Standards have the right to put the cat down after one week in quarantine. But the manager of Trading Standards at Dorset County Council Ivan Hancock said they will do everything they can to avoid that happening.
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