By Bond Robertson 
According to the newspaper South China Morning PostThe owner’s name is Zhang and lives in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, west of Shanghai.
The missing cat “Manto” was a British Shorthair. Illustrative image. Photograph: Srdjan Zivolovic/Reuters
She found out that her beloved cat, Mantoux, had gone missing on January 5th. Mantou is a British Shorthair and has a tracking device around its neck, allowing the owner to track the cat to neighboring Jiangsu Province to the north.
Chang got scared that the cat had been kidnapped and called the police. But after examining the surveillance footage, the police claimed they found no evidence of a cat abduction and did not pursue the case any further.
At the same time, Zhang could see that the cat tracker was now far to the south and was heading towards the southern city of Guangzhou, more than 1,500 kilometers away.
I got local help
The missing cat is found in a truck with several other cats, which are also suspected of being stolen. Animal welfare activists claim the cats were on their way to a slaughterhouse. Photo: Weibo
She chose to commute and boarded a plane to the aforementioned Guangzhou. She posted a post on the social networking site Weibo before hopping on board, asking for help on how to find the cat in the foreign city.
The local animal welfare organization picked up on the message and decided to help. By the time her plane lands, the group has tracked down the cat and not only that, but they find her in a truck full of cats.
To the Yangtse Evening Post, animal rights activists said they were convinced the truck was on its way to a slaughterhouse to become human food. The truck driver claimed he got all the cats from a friend. Due to a lack of evidence, he was not arrested.
China has switched to cat and dog meat
After the spread of the Corona virus from the wet market in Wuhan in China, there has been an increased focus on meat consumption in the country of both wild animals and traditional pets such as dogs and cats.
In 2020, the Ministry of Agriculture in China imposed a ban on the sale of dog and cat meat. The ban came in the form of an updated regulation with a list of animal species allowed to be traded for human consumption. Dogs are not included in the list and are therefore prohibited from being sold to and from slaughterhouses, restaurants and food markets.