Lost cat, please help if you can.

Hi,

Help!  Please!  I can pay something, not much, for help given.  I have lost one of my two cats who I adopted from an animal shelter over five years ago.  She means the world to me.

I asked my ex-neighbour to feed her until I could realistically come to get her, but despite saying Poppy was hungry and my offering to pay for the dry feed, she didn't answer (one reason I moved was because I have not enjoyed living next to this couple) - I doubt she will be so empathetic with a little animal.  A friend contacted Friends of Mazarron Animals who said they'd go and have a look last Friday if they had the time (!) - As there is no news from them, I guess they weren't able to go.  I'm frantic with worry about Poppy.  Please someone help get her and send her to me.  She means everything to me and she's a little softy but a bit dopey like she has minor brain damage who is lucky to be alive as she seemed to have got a real beating from someone before the animal shelter found her half-dead.  She had a broken rib, broken front teeth, and in my opinion it was like she'd been in a smoke-filled room as she coughed loads (supposedly asthma but it went away after a few months).  She used to flinch when you reached out to stroke her, was terrified of me holding the broom on the other side of the room, and the sound of tearing foil scared her a lot - now she's quite normal, it's been a lot of work and a lot of love and five years of doing whatever I can for these two cats.

I moved from Cañada de Gallego to Teruel one month ago.  Stupidly, on the day of the move (which cost me over 1k Euros), in order not to have the cats in carry cages for hours and hours before even starting the long lorry journey I let them run around outside until I and the removals man had finished.  I was living in a tiny house with two rooms and no door between them and both rooms were full of boxes and my furniture.  I got Sweetpea inside to put her in her carry cage, but Poppy wouldn't come in the house and she kept hiding in a neighbour's garden or a sort of attic thing above their house, and we waited three hours longer while I kept calling her and tried to get her in the house with food, then the removals man said he'd have to unload all my stuff again as he couldn't wait any longer.  I planned to go back down in a few days to get her, but on getting here, the estate agent's 'You can get to the house in a van or a normal car was not quite true, so I found myself, Sweetpea and my belongings left in a field at the entrance to the finca, and we had to sleep there two nights under a tarpaulin and sheets of plastic (surreally horrible), the second night was really, really windy.  The guy who sold the finca came with a tractor to help me move the heavy stuff 200m up a winding farm track to the house, the rest I had to do with a wheelbarrow.  I had no electricity for three weeks until I could put the solar kit together, so couldn't use my mobile phone very much at all, I also had to put some cheapo shed together in order to store boxes of things, etc.  It all took more time than I'd planned for.  And I can't just abandon Sweetpea here for a few days to get Poppy.

Last summer, as soon as I had some money for a change, I gave 500 Euros to Engresgats (where I adopted them from), money to other charities, put something in the tins at Happy Vets for Friends of Mazarron Animals and the other people with a collection tin there.  I might be a joke but I am a good person and I desperately need help to get my cat back who's a big bundle of softy.

I packed a bag and Poppy's carry cage to come down to Mazarrón today but it's just unrealistic, besides Sweetpea going all sad and looking like 'please don't leave me here alone'. and I don't think I should for what will be several days.

Poppy is vaccinated, microchipped, and probably having a terrible time of it.  Please help someone, even if it's just feeding her Mercadona meat flavour dry food and giving her water until I can go down.  I have no car as the one I bought in summertime was a write-off, I was so relieved to be able to pay bills and eat food again I temporarily forgot there are loads of bad people, like dodgy car dealers, so I didn't check the dealership's reputation first.  But I have no car, lost some 3.5k Euros in the process, and without a car, the journey from here to Cañada de Gallego is like some ancient expedition that takes days.

If someone could try to get Poppy, and put her in a carry cage and send her up to me, I'll pay for it, then send your carry cage back, I'll even pay you something for your time and effort if you want.  I just want my cat back alive.  She must be so hungry and bewildered.  I love her loads and I'm very worried about her.  Please help, anyone decent who can understand the cat's needs come first and she's a very domestic cat who is not used to sleeping rough.  Please, pretty please help me/her.