Please phone us on 08453 712727 if you have lost or found a cat. We’ll ask you for some information about the cat (eg. colour, distinctive markings, sex, age, whether neutered etc.) & we’ll place this on our register. This branch covers the area of post codes TQ7 to TQ14

We can now also advertise Lost & Found cats on this website. Just e-mail dotsmerdon@hotmail.com with a description of the cat + let us know when & where the cat went missing from or was found. If you send us a digital photo we’ll include that too!

General info:-
Lost cats – It’s always very distressing when a cat goes missing but we are here to help. Give us a call & we’ll give you guidance on the steps you can take to try & locate your cat. 

Found cats – We’ll try & match these to the lost cats on our register. We also supply paper collars should you be uncertain whether the cat you’ve spotted is really lost. Teignbridge & Totnes Cats Protection Branch maintains a register of Lost & Found cats.

If you want to increase your chance of a happy ending, go and rescue your digital camera from the swim suit and bermuda shorts pile and get some pictures of your favourite puss. If he or she ever gets lost ,then you have a major piece of information that will greatly help us and other authorities find him or her.

Lost & Founds

2011 proved to be another busy year with nearly 200 phone calls taken on the Lost & Found helpline. Slightly more cats were reported found than lost & we had several notable successes reuniting cats with owners’. Having manned this line now for a number of years I realise that just giving guidance to owners who’ve lost their cats is a very valuable service & indirectly we reunite many more cats once their owners know how to set about finding them.

Here’s the tale of 3 late successes in 2011:-

Scamp - In November a tabby & white male cat was reported found at Bowden House near Ashprington. He’d turned up in very poor condition & looked as if he’d been lost for some time. He was very friendly & the finder suspected that his owner would be searching for him. In the meantime she started feeding him & gave him a comfy bed.  I saw that Scamp, a 4 year old cat of a similar description, had been reported missing from Totnes during August; his owner having recently moved to the area from Wales.  After a phone call between owner & finder & a visit the following day Scamp was reunited.

Millie - Dot rang me to say that an elderly grey female cat with an undershot jaw had been found in Buckfastleigh quarry during November & that having looked back through her old web records realised it could be one we’d had on our books since July 2010! A bit of detective work was then needed as Millie’s owners had since moved house. After enlisting the help of 2 veterinary practices they were traced to an address in Kingsteignton. Upon hearing the news they immediately left work & drove over to see if it was indeed Millie. Many tears of joy were then shed when they realised it was her. Millie’s owner said that although he’d lived in Buckfast work regularly took him to Buckfastleigh quarry. He figured that Millie must have stowed away in his car, jumped out at the quarry & been living there ever since.

Pussy cat, pussy cat where have you been? …. I was astounded to receive a call in January telling me that Bailey a distinctive caramel coloured long haired cat, had just been driven home from  Blackheath, London having been missing from his home in Kingsteignton since before Christmas. His owner thanked me for my advice saying that he’d located Bailey through the national missing pets register on the internet. He surmised that Bailey had somehow hitched a lift on a local clay lorry which was delivering to a site in Blackheath. Bailey had been found wandering & taken in by a very kind lady who loves cats. She realised he wasn’t a local cat & so advertised him on the web.