{"id":2529854,"date":"2025-05-20T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2529854\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T10:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T10:00:20","slug":"cat-on-train-tracks-20-minutes-to-retrieve-it-france-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2529854\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat on train tracks? 20 minutes to retrieve it, France says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/AFP047410_00.pre.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t      In 2023, a departing train in Paris ran over a cat that had escaped from a traveller&#8217;s bag, in a case that caused an uproar in France.<br \/>  Despite requests from the animal&#8217;s owners to delay the departure and rescue the animal, the Paris-Bordeaux high-speed TGV train with 800 passengers on board left, slicing Neko the cat in two. France&#8217;s national rail operator SNCF insisted at the time that the animal was not visible.<br \/>  After two years of deliberation SNCF has now issued clear rules.<br \/>  If your pet escapes and falls onto the train tracks in France, a train can be delayed by a maximum of 20 minutes, according to the new protocol, a copy of which was seen by AFP.<br \/>  The protocol formalises practices that have always been in place in this type of situation and are applied with common sense and humanity by our staff, a spokesman for rail infrastructure management unit SNCF Reseau told AFP on Friday.<br \/>  The new rules were spelled out in a memo to SCNF staff on Thursday.<br \/>  Once a passenger has reported an animal missing, SNCF staff have 10 minutes to clear up any doubts by trying to spot the animal from the platform, according to the new rules.<br \/>  If the missing pet is spotted, staff have a maximum of 10 minutes to remove the animal without entering the danger zone and accessing the tracks.<br \/>  If the animal still does not emerge, the train is required to proceed at very low speed to give it a final chance to escape.<br \/>  Neko&#8217;s owners sued SNCF but lost on appeal.<br \/>  After the cat&#8217;s death Clement Beaune, the transport minister at the time, had asked the SNCF chief executive to look into all possible options for changing your internal procedures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2023, a departing train in Paris ran over a cat that had escaped from a traveller&#8217;s bag, in a case th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2529855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[784993],"tags":[30357,98706,528524,32077,939,1670,98751,73191,11802,200,125020,78392,5838,6798,17757,812,4817,3687,4313,31168,1712,345531,6330,784979,2722,11034,784980,1668,3843,13633,11786,3577,16899,21135,302851,482,14115,577,1669],"class_list":{"0":"post-2529854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-france","9":"tag-jiji","10":"tag-topics","11":"tag-topix","12":"tag-939","13":"tag-1670","14":"tag-98751","15":"tag-73191","16":"tag-11802","17":"tag-200","18":"tag-125020","19":"tag-78392","20":"tag-5838","21":"tag-6798","22":"tag-17757","23":"tag-812","24":"tag-4817","25":"tag-3687","26":"tag-4313","27":"tag-31168","28":"tag-1712","29":"tag-345531","30":"tag-6330","31":"tag-784979","32":"tag-2722","33":"tag-11034","34":"tag-784980","35":"tag-1668","36":"tag-3843","37":"tag-13633","38":"tag-11786","39":"tag-3577","40":"tag-16899","41":"tag-21135","42":"tag-302851","43":"tag-482","44":"tag-14115","45":"tag-577","46":"tag-1669"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/wakoka.com\/@news\/114539583059371135","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2529854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2529855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2529854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2529854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2529854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}