Saskatoon family wants justice after they say their cat was trapped and left in a rural field
CBC
A Saskatoon family searching for their cat, Mon, was shocked when he ended up in a rural field more than 30 kilometres from their home.
It was the morning of Sept. 4 when Huy Nguyen and Jesse Dinh first realized Mon wasn't around.
“Normally we’re always trying to keep him inside, but we have two dogs and we have a small kid — he's just three years old — so it's hard and Mon, [he’s] like an escape expert,” Nguyen said.
They checked their cat's AirTag tracking device location and were relieved he wasn’t far away. The locator showed he was down the street at a different property in their Arbor Creek neighbourhood.
City cats are not legally allowed to roam free, but Mon was keen on the outdoors.
Nguyen said they went to their neighbour’s home and rang the doorbell, but there was no answer.
“I call[ed] his name, but he didn't show up, and I don't want to bother my neighbour, so that's why I came home, [hoping] he will come back.”
But Mon didn't come back.
It's not uncommon for city cats to disappear, but it's not always clear how they vanished.
In this case, Mon's family did discover how Mon wound up dead so far from home — and who allegedly took him there.
Around noon on Sept. 4, Nguyen noticed Mon’s location, according to the AirTag, hadn’t moved from their neighbour's property.
“I feel worried. Something's not right. He cannot stay there for, you know really, four or five hours,” Nguyen said.
Then Mon was on the move.
The AirTag updated the location to a highway east of the city and then at the intersection of Old Highway 16 and Range Road 3032 near Clavet, Sask.
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