Hours after learning of Sandy's plight Wendy took a £150 Ryanair flight from Stansted Airport to Carcassonne to rescue the stricken cat. The retired mum-of-two found Sandy crying out for help and almost starving to death after climbing up inside a neighbour's garage and onto the roof. After the rescue, she booked Sandy onto a coach to drive her all the her back home to her home in Woodbridge, Suffolk.
Wendy, a retired building society worker, said: "My French neighbour told me Sandy had disappeared and when I made enquiries I found she was stuck on a roof. The only way off the roof was back down through the garage or a 10 foot drop. She was too nervous to wait by the garage door and lots of people had tried to coax her down. But they weren't particularly bothered about feeding her. The poor old thing was stuck up there in the baking heat for three weeks without any real food or water. How she survived I just don't know.
I was so worried about it I decided to fly out to France. I just thought I have to go get her. I thought she was going to die. You can't call the French firefighters like you do in England because they wouldn't appreciate going out to rescue a cat."
"When I got there I saw her on the roof and she ran over and cried out but there was no way to get to her. I had to wait until the neighbours got back so I could get into their garage. She was so thirsty and really hungry. She wouldn't have lasted much longer. It was definitely worth it and I couldn't abandon her to die."
Inexplicably, Wendy has now donated the cat to her neighbour Peggy Ward, 83.
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