Cat that was 恐れるd dead after running away from its owners at the Eurotunnel 11 weeks ago turns up ALIVE in nearby town garden
- 黒人／ボイコット cat Monty was spooked when a lorry whizzed by at 出発 area in Kent?
- Ran away from owners Alex Rudkin, 58, and Michelle Campbell, 51, for 11 weeks
- Couple 恐れるd he was dead before receiving phonecall from woman who 設立する Monty in her garden in Newington, London?
A cat that was 恐れるd dead after running away from its owner at the Eurotunnel 11 weeks ago has been 設立する alive and 井戸／弁護士席.
黒人／ボイコット cat Monty escaped his harness and jumped out of the boot at the busy 出発 area in Folkestone, Kent.
His desperate owners, who live over 200 miles away in Normandy, フラン, made several trips 支援する to Britain to find their pet - even 調書をとる／予約するing into hotels and sleeping in the car 夜通し.
Pet Monty was 設立する in a garden in Newington after running away from its owners at the Eurotunnel in Folkestone, Kent
But after weeks of searching, Alex Rudkin, 58, and his partner Michelle Campbell, 51, received a phonecall from a woman who 設立する Monty in her garden in nearby Newington, London.
Mr Rudkin said: 'At times I thought we would never see him again as his only 安全な 選択 was to escape over the 20 foot high 安全 盗品故買者 and 長，率いる に向かって Newington and Peene, where we had called on every house and put up posters.
'If he stayed in the pet excursus area where he went 行方不明の, he would 絶えず have to dodge cars and トラックで運ぶs going through 24 hours a day.
'Food and water would have been in 限られた／立憲的な 供給（する）. We thought he could have 餓死するd to death after a week, or even died from dehydration after three days 特に as it was during the hottest summer in years.
Owners Alex Rudkin, 58, and Michelle Campbell, 51, 恐れるd the worst when he didn't turn up for 11 weeks
'His only other 大勝する off 場所／位置 would be south to Folkestone but that would mean crossing rail line and motorways.'
The pair, 初めは from West Yorkshire, had decided to move Monty to join them for a new life in フラン on Friday, June 29.
But he became startled after he escaped at the Eurotunnel 予定 to a passing lorry.
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It was 最初 恐れるd Monty could have been run over in the busy 出発 area, or had died from dehydration as 気温s 急に上がるd.?
Mr Rudkin said: 'We had been stuck in the car for eight hours, and we still had a long 旅行 home so we stopped and gave him some water.
'A lorry went by which must have startled him. He jumped from out of the car a nd managed to escape his harness.
Monty was spooked and jumped out of the family car when a lorry passed by at the busy 出発 lounge
'We spent the next two hours looking around the Eurotunnel, but the 安全 盗品故買者s probably would not have kept him in.'
He was 設立する on Friday, September 14, after they received a phone call from a woman who recognised Monty and said he was in her garden.
At the time, they were passing through Folkestone on their way 支援する up to Yorkshire.
Mr Rudkin continued: 'We will never know what 現実に happened but it is possible he has been in the villages for ten weeks scrounging food, かもしれない こそこそ動くing in and out of the same house.
'How he has 避けるd 存在 seen for all that time and then deciding to finally show himself just as we were at the nearest point to Newington is just amazing.
'Any other time and we would have had a 250 mile 旅行 to go and get him.'
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