{"id":251856,"date":"2025-07-09T22:15:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T22:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/251856\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T22:15:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T22:15:24","slug":"urgent-appeal-for-a-stowaway-cat-which-travelled-400-miles-to-scotland-to-be-reunited-with-her-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/251856\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgent appeal for a stowaway cat which travelled 400 miles to Scotland to be reunited with her owners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By DAILY MAIL REPORTER <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  13:03 EDT, 9 July 2025   |  Updated:  13:19 EDT, 9 July 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">An urgent appeal is underway to find the owners of a cat found in the engine of a minibus after a 400-mile journey from England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The pet jumped out of the vehicle at the Park of Hamilton depot in Blantyre, Lanarkshire, yesterday (Wed) following a trip from South Mimms, in Hertfordshire, via Staffordshire and Lancashire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She has been handed over to the charity Cats Protection\u2019s centre where a vet checked her over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The cat, named Scout by volunteers, is thought to be around a year old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Although dirty from its adventure the moggy has escaped her ordeal otherwise unharmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The charity is now desperately trying to find her owners to return her home.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-b79b68b0e8eaaab4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/100159261-14890435-A_cat_dubbed_Scout_has_been_found_in_the_engine_of_a_minibus_fol-m-4_175207999748.jpeg\" height=\"535\" width=\"634\" alt=\"A cat dubbed Scout has been found in the engine of a minibus following a 400-mile journey\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">A cat dubbed Scout has been found in the engine of a minibus following a 400-mile journey<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-5f0142bd0ee2e2dc\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/100159263-14890435-image-a-2_1752079879670.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The stowaway cat travelled from South Mimms, in Hertfordshire, to the Park of Hamilton depot at Blantyre, in Lanarkshire\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The stowaway cat travelled from South Mimms, in Hertfordshire, to the Park of Hamilton depot at Blantyre, in Lanarkshire<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-4b2b05040d9d7558\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/100159265-14890435-The_charity_Cats_Protection_is_desperate_to_reunite_Scout_who_wa-m-19_17520801248.jpeg\" height=\"545\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The charity Cats Protection is desperate to reunite Scout, who was found in the engine of a minibus, with his owners\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The charity Cats Protection is desperate to reunite Scout, who was found in the engine of a minibus, with his owners<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Deputy centre manager Rachael Ward said: \u2018The first thing Scout did was eat an entire pouch of food in one go before settling down for a two-hour nap &#8211; clearly thankful for some safety and absolutely exhausted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018She is underweight but otherwise in good body condition, just very dirty from her travels. Surprisingly, and thankfully, she is completed uninjured after her ordeal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018Scout is a domestic shorthair, white and tortoiseshell in colour, with quite distinctive markings. We\u2019re hopeful that with enough attention, her owner will recognise her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018Sadly, Scout is not microchipped. We would be so, so grateful if people could share her story. It would be a miracle to reunite her with her owner.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Ms Ward added that photographic evidence would be needed to reclaim Scout.<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Urgent appeal for a stowaway cat which travelled 400 miles to Scotland to be reunited with her owners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Published: 13:03 EDT, 9 July 2025 | Updated: 13:19 EDT, 9 July 2025 An&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[748,92,393,4884,12,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-251856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-dailymail","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114825588403510660","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}