Our Lost Dog Project

We’ve contacted more than twenty vets in villages near us. All said that the first thing they would do with a new “patient” is to scan their microchip.
We’ve also put up missing posters around a ten mile radius.
No - I’m not a facebooker, but my husband has reluctantly joined three Facebook groups. I just can’t understand why someone hasn’t come forward to say that they know anything about him. We’re pretty rural and the same people use the little road where he was supposedly knocked down. We’ve put large photos of him along the road asking for anyone to let us know. Also the three houses near to the woman who didn’t like him in her garden didn’t have anyone knock at their door or know anything about it.
I still can’t believe that he would have been anywhere near the road- he was a very timid little chap. To get to her bird table he only had to trot through a little copse - nowhere near the road.
It’s been five weeks now, so am starting to give up hope. I suspect that someone saw the poster , contacted her and said “if no one has claimed him in two weeks, then I’ll have him”. Or else she just wanted shot of him and sold him.
I really can’t understand why a woman living in such a rural area would go to the trouble of taking a photo of a cat in her garden, printing it, laminating it and composing words around it. Honestly, we have cats in our garden regularly and don’t even think about it.