Missing moggy mix-up at Logan pound as Gold Coast woman takes home wrong cat

For the second time in a month, a missing pet has been handed to the wrong owners south of Brisbane.

Ashmore woman Samantha Gibbs is still looking for her missing cat named Alley.

A local pound is at the centre of a bumbling cat mix-up, which resulted in a missing moggy being handed over to the wrong owner.

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HUNT FOR DOGNAPPER

The mix-up is the second pet bungle in Logan since a dog was handed over to the wrong owner at a Browns Plains vet clinic last month.

Logan City Council pound gave the wrong cat to Gold Coast woman Samantha Gibbs, who had been looking for her missing cat on Facebook.

One of the Facebook posts about the missing cat from Ashmore.

Ms Gibbs contacted the pound after she saw a photo of a seal-point cat, similar to hers, on the Logan City Council pound Facebook page under the “outside Logan” section.

She had put her own photo of her lost cat, Alley, on the Gold Coast Lost and Found Pet Facebook page on July 15.

Before going to the pound, she posted on Facebook that the cat being held at Logan was hers and she would go to collect it.

Logan Animal Management Centre, where the cat was collected.

She then drove 45km from her Ashmore home and picked up the cat from the Queens Rd Animal Management Centre at Kingston on July 20.

The cat was handed to her in a box and she failed to check it was hers before leaving.

It wasn’t until she opened the box at home that she found, to her horror, it was the wrong cat.

Since taking possession of the “wrong missing cat”, the desexed female seal-point, known as Crunchie, has been returned to a Brisbane address, leaving Ms Gibbs still searching for her missing cat.

Alley, the cat missing from Ashmore with a white mount and white paws.

Online animal lost and found organisation in Logan, Reunited Pets Qld spokeswoman Sabrina Pool said it was a case of mistaken identity.

Crunchie the cat, who has black paws and a black mouth, was found and taken to Logan City Council pound before she was mistakenly handed to Samantha Gibbs whose cat had gone missing at Ashmore. Crunchie has since been returned safely to her home in Brisbane.

Good news. Crunchie has found her way home.

She said before the cat was handed over she alerted the pound, Ms Gibbs and the Gold Coast Facebook site of the mistake.

“Blind Freddie could see they were not the same cats,” Ms Pool said.

“Logan City Council should never have handed over the cat without checking all the proper credentials.

“Now we still have a missing un-desexed female cat lost and wandering around in Ashmore.

“Before paying the council money, people should check they are paying for the release of the correct animal.”

Logan City Council pound said it was investigating.

Originally published as Missing moggy mix-up at Logan pound as Gold Coast woman takes home wrong cat