A neighbour stole my cat and gave it away to someone else.

Hi, about 2 weeks ago our 18 months cat went (as we thought) missing, we have since shared all the photos on social media, posters around our town and estate to let people know that he is missing, we also have been walking around the town every night trying to find our cat.

After 2 weeks we came across a post on Facebook, a guy was claiming that his 12 year old cat came home after being missing for 2.5 years.

The woman that took the cat, lives 5 doors away from me, she claimed that the cat walked into her house, and she called her ex boyfriend to come and pick up the cat. So she confirmed that she took the cat and gave it away.

Since then we have been in contact with the ex boyfriend, we asked to view the cat as it looked a lot like our cat. At start of our conversation he sent us more pictures of the cat and we were positive it is our cat. So we asked again if we could see the cat, he refused aggressively. But in the end he agreed to meet at the police station, we asked him again to see the cat in person and he accepted, we come to his house and we see that it's 100% our cat.

We also found a photo of the cat that he claims came back to the after 2.5 years of being missing, and it's 12 years old.

We had a verbal agreement to go the vet next day and verify that the cat is not 12 years old and is 18 months old. But he blew us off and started threatening us if we keep contacting him.

That same day a man shows up to our door claiming to be a vet and saying that the ex boyfriend has emotional issues and that he is emotional unstable. The vet then started asking us if we could leave the cat with him out of good will. We are completely shocked with how unprofessional that "vet" was. And he got our address without our consent from the woman that took the cat the vet also confirmed that.

We went to the police but they say their hands are tighed. The cat is not microchipped but we have all the photos to prove we also got it from a friend that fosters kittens. And the ex boyfriend and the woman does not have any other photos of their missing cat than the ones we found on their social media.

We are looking for any help with this.

Our next step is to get a solicitor involved.

We are based in Ireland.

Thanks

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