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Cats been gone for 2 days, how long before I start worrying?
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In Australia, grum, cats are rather too efficient predators for the local wildbirds and marsupials.
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Fair enough - my cat could certainly never be described as an efficient predator, and my old cats only ever killed rats and occasionally rabbits.
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One of our Siamese dissapeared for three weeks once. I had done everything I could and eventually got round to cancelling his insurance. Two days later I got a call from a vet 4 miles across the city. He had plotted himself around a particular street and just decided to stay, seems some of the locals started feeding him and he was happy enough. Eventually someone must have thought he had an owner somewhet and took him to the vets who called me. Needless to say I was over the moon.
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My cat was a fairly good birder, but on the other hand, in doing so she saved many innocent insects from their murderous unforgiving beaks...
(I'm learning by her example and am off on a mission to save countless millions of marine zooplankton... yes, I'm off to kill a blue whale)
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(I'm learning by her example and am off on a mission to save countless millions of marine zooplankton... yes, I'm off to kill a blue whale)
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Yuck no - didn't know that ! De-clawing bad, claw clipping OK, I have it now.
My cat can't spend 5 minutes inside at the moment, I think territory wars are kicking off. I have the vet on standby, and my big bottle of squirty water for when I have to join in. Have to say I quite enjoy driving out the barbarian invaders.
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We have 2 house cats. One is an aging lady who had access to the outdoors but didn't really like it, she prefers to curl up in little hiding places. The other is a young male from a rescue centre. He'd been hit by a car and had shattered his pelvis. He dragged himself off the road and was taken to the vet. The owner was located but refused to admit it was there's as they didn't want the extensive bill. He also lost a large patch of fur on his back from burns - either from the exhaust or friction from being dragged. The vet said he should be a house cat for his own safety, firstly as he wasn't fast on his feet (he couldn't walk for 3 months but made a full recovery in this area) and secondly because he has a high chance of skin cancer due to the bald patch, or being victimised apparently, as he looks a bit odd. Being the sucker I am we took him in
he's a bit of a shitbag tbh, scratching the leather sofa! But he has his moments
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Glad he's back - they are a nightmare when they decide to do this.
It does settle down <i>eventually</i>, and this time of year is perfect for a young, fit male cat to be wandering about, neutered or otherwise. He'll have been asleep in the sun somewhere safe for most of his time out tho' - you know what they are like.
My neighbours and I have a kinda conspiracy to limit the speed of 'new' drivers: It's odd how some people don't seem to be able to park very well at all outside their houses of an evening, or don't secure their garden timmings very well, so a stuff just seems to fall out of the boot on the way to the recycling centre and into the road - stranger still is why nobody picks it up for ages.
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I know what you mean re drivers - I live in a 20mph zone too.
Not sure if I would get away with leaving shite on the roads to slow them down tho ! Perhaps a few dead dogs might do it.
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Havn't read some of this post, i can't handle it - saw the first pic n just sobbed my eyes out! We lost both of our cats last year, one went missing in June while we were away and the other we found dead outside our house in October. We loved them so much they were such characters and so affectionate. Soft i know and dread to think what having kids is like id be an emotional wreck worrying all the time
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I remember when i was young my cat went missing for what i thought was about 6 weeks at the time, in my mind im doubting it was that long but it was still a really long time. He came bounding up the front garden and ran straight in the house whilst the door was open.
We suspect, like others have poitned out, he was being fed by someone else because he seemed in no disrepair. We also think he carried on getting fed by some old dear when he was older.
We had another cat who was completely off his trolly and would go off for 24 hours at a time very regularly. Pretty much once a week all year round.
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I don't think you can say a cat is yours, they are for all intents and purposes individuals.
If the cat goes out and is chipped leave it to come back on it's own or for someone to call you regarding it. No point worrying it doesn't accomplish anything.
Why not just use a GPS http://www.trackmycat.com/ it's a lot more cost effective than flyers and searching. Not sure if anyone else had suggested this as I don't want to read the whole thread, short on time.
Thought id mention it though just incase.
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Kaesae, did you put that tag on yourself?
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The farm I used to work at had a cat arrive one day and take up residence. We didnt feed it for a few days as we thought it would head back home but it didnt. So it ended up having the run of the farm and got fed and fussed. Lovely cat used to sit on fence posts and watch you work, sheep dipping time was her fav viewing. It's fav trick was to find an open tractor, landy or car door and curl up asleep in side, got bought back by several visitors. Reckon she must have arrived on a delivery truck. Lived out a long and happy life but someone must have missed her and gone through a load of anguish wondering where she went.
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about a year ago had a cat appear at our house, it took about 6 weeks for me to be able to get close enough to be able to determine if it had a collar, it had taken a few weeks to get a good look at it! It had been living under the decking and in the bushes around the house.
In the end got a cage off cats protection, trapped the cat and felt awful doing it, but managed to get it reunited with its owners.
It transpired that it had wandered 3 miles across the fields, and in the end was away from its owners for 8 weeks. But it did get back to them, it was fit and healthy, and despite living outside in January in the snow, it was fine.
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I really want to install some kind of camera and gps recorder on our cat for a couple of nights, just to see what he gets up to!
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