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We got a rescue cat 3 months ago and since then she has become our 2.5 yr olds best friend.
Last night she didnt come home as she normally does between 9 and 10. The wife and I waited up until midnight and still no sign. I went for a walk around the neighbourhood and still no sign. We left a window open for her and hoped she would return by morning.
This morning still no sign. I have driven around the area 3 times, walked around locally 3 times, knocked on neighbours doors, asked people to look out for her etc.
Going to put some posters up tomorrow and the wife is going to ring around local vets, rscpa, cats protection etc. She is microhipped so if someone finds her we should be contacted.
I know she has only been gone 24 hours but she doesnt normally go far and comes back every couple of hours.
Not sure what else we can do and most people think she will just turn up in a day or two but doesnt stop us worrying! Looking for some positive stories with a good outcome - we cant help but think the worst.
Edit: Maybe not.
As above though, chances are the moggy will turn up in a couple of days with a massive shit-eating grin, or whatever the cat equivalent is.
Last cat i had would disappear all day and return about 7.00pm, not hungry,didnt want much food all through the winter.
The reason i found out was it was jumping over fence into neighbours garden and sleeping in front of her gas fire all day and being fed real tuna and Ceasar cat food all day,how i found out was when i saw her coming out of neighbours kitchen window, and asked for her back.
Neighbour then got her own cat.
Cats will eventually return to their first home they got food and affection from.
Ours did the same about 3 months after we got him. Came home about 48hrs later. I think it's a pretty normal thing for cats to do once in a while.
Mine goes walkabout too. Usually in someone elses house. It'll come back soon. I did lock mine in the shed once. May be worth checking there.
Mine went missing for two weeks. Only came back after we got desperate and abducted another local cat that looked vaguely similar and shut it in our house.
Go round to your neighbours and ask them to check garages and sheds, she has probably been nosy and quiet and someone has locked her in one.
Good luck, hope she is back soon, safe and well.
years ago, ours crossed the main road at the end of the street and presumably didn't dare cross back. Eventually located at a house across the main road, but don't recall how it was found (Police, RSPCA, word of mouth or something else).
Wouldn't worry yet - one of ours came back after 4 or 5 days last week - a bit thinner but fine. We had one go missing for 2 weeks once. He turned up in Plymouth - we live in Bristol. We think he must have jumped into a builders van and not been noticed.
We had cats go missing for days at a time all the time, think they most likely got shut in people's garage etc'. One cat went missing for 5 weeks, my mum had given up and bought another kitten, then he turned up like nothing had happened!
Aah, a rescue cat...
My sister had a cat from the mad cat ladies of the cat's rescue league, or some such.
After 6 months of catluxe it scarpered. It was found two years later in Bolton, and thanks to the chip fitted by the Cat ladies was found to have travelled from my sis in Surrey. This attracted national media attention, and the cat was found to have actually travelled from Torquay, where the owners had moved to, and was probably en route to Scotland, where they had moved from.
Always butter their paws!
I has a cat go missing for three days before, eventually he turned up and flopped out on his favourite chair and slept for two days straight. I was worried he was really ill but he seemed fine just extremely tired, after two days of worry and me checking on him every 2 hours or so I concluded he must have been hanging on a ledge or something similar and eventually fell due to exhaustion. He had a few claws missing and his pads were dirty and scratched. After his 'coma' he was perfectly fine.
This makes me want to have a "house cat",If I should ever get one (likely)
One of ours went missing on the first day of after a house move. We got him back over a year later after discovering one of the houses that backed onto our garden had stolen him! He had (unrelated to above) previously disappeared for a few days and come back very wet and bedraggled.
She could be locked in a neighbour's shed or garage by mistake. She'll probably come back at the weekend when the shed or garage is opened again.
No no no to house cats 🙁 IMO
We lost our cat for 6 months, was found 25miles away after it got run over, was fine apart from droopy tail
We had a cat that once disappeared for weeks, but then just reappeared.
On the flip side, I hope you don't live in Cirencester, cos a cat ran under the wheels of my van this morning 🙁
One of my house cats that I let into the garden goes over the fence every now and again, and then has trouble gettin gback over the fence, meaning we have to drop some trellis over that side of the fence for him to climb up like a ladder.
He has started doing it more often now which is worrying as he is not too bright.
I found this site the other day which does fencing so I can turn my garden into a colditz type environment.
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A statistic I'm fond of repeating is that there are 7 million domestic cats in Britain and 10 million families who think they own a cat.
Without suggesting the worse, make sure your cat is insured. If your cat has been hit by a car, it will lay up in a hedge or similar for a few days to decide whether it will make it or not. If can move after that it will come home.
This is what happened to one of mine and the vet said that was standard behaviour in the case of a serious injury. I then spent up to my insurance limit of £3k on vets fees.
Fingers crossed that the above is not the case though.
Ill keep popping back here for the good news post...
He has started doing it more often now which is worrying as he is not too bright.
Going off-topic, but that reminds of an episode in my biology class. The topic wast the thyroid and one of the questions was what symptoms would suggest a thyroid deficiency in a cat. A mate of mine answered cretinism but wasn't given the mark as the teacher decided it was impossible to detect whether a cat was mentally deficient or not. Still makes me giggle (a little..)
We've always had cats and they do tend to disappear on occasion, sometimes for a few days. They have always returned however.
We now have two, one of whom is pretty bright and the other is, shall we say, rather less so...... When the stupid one goes missing, the intelligent one is dispatched to track her down and invariably returns with stupid in tow.
Trust yours turns up.
My parent's cat went missing for a few days, which wasn't unusual. The following day, a very upset lady brought round a dead cat in a blanket that she had either discovered or run over. She was very upset, as was my mother....
Folks paid for it to be cremated (or something like that) and were pretty distraught as it they'd got her when first married.
A day or so later, the cat wandered in - it had been sleeping in a neighbours shed. They never did find out who owned the first cat!
it was impossible to detect whether a cat was mentally deficient or not.
when the stupid one looks at you it is nearly always the 'rabbit in headlights' type look.
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(It is those stupid raised flowerbeds that gives him enough extra height to make the leap to the top of the fence beside them.)
Crikey, mine hasn't been in the house for over 6 months, until last week when it rained and he decided to come and say hello.
I had to go and fetch my cat from the next door but one neighbours shed last night. She hadn't come in for the evening so I went out the back to whistle for her and could hear her meowing from the distance. I wasn't sure at first if she was making her way back or was stuck somewhere, but it soon became evident the meowing was not getting any closer and I could tell she was in the garden next door but one. Knocked on their dorr and they said go check the shed... out pops the cat. Been in there for about six hours apparently.
It's not the first time either, she got locked in another shed for a whole bank holiday w/end once. Got herself locked in next doors house whislt they were on holiday, she'd crept in whilst they were loading the car up. She climbed into a car over the road and they started to drive off to work with her in it, only to hear meowing from the back seat halfway there...
hope OP your cat turns up btw... they usually do.
Still no sign unfortunately. Been out looking lots, knocked on neighbours, rung vets cats protection, rspca etc but no sign. Going to put some flyer through people's doors a bit further afield today.
Mine disappeared last tuesday night. I did the same as you, looking locally and put up posters. I wasn't very hopeful he would reappear as it's not the most cat-friendly area and he hadn't gone missing before. But sunday morning he reappeared, going totally nuts for food and attention. I noticed all of his front claws were severely ground down which would suggest that he was trapped somewhere and trying to escape, probably an old outhouse I'd guess. Hope yours turns up.
Fingers crossed for some good news soon OP
it was impossible to detect whether a cat was mentally deficient or not
Not true.
Stupid Black Cat MkII still gets stuck to the carpet/curtains/duvet/my trousers on a regular basis.
A bit of a sad update I am afraid. On Sunday we spoke to the pet insurance company who paid for Animal Search UK to print of some proper posters and 250 flyers. They have a free phone line for people to ring with information 24 hours a day. I went round on Tuesday posting the flyers through doors and within 15 minutes of getting home got a phone call with some information that a lady's husband had seen Bella whilst walking his dog but she was lying dead on someones lawn. He was out but she promised to let us know which house when he got back.
Wednesday morning he confirmed which house it was so I could go round when I got home from work. Mean while a lady rang and said she had found a dead cat and got the council to come and pick it up.
I went round to the house on Wednesday evening and confirmed it was our cat but the lady was very vague with what happened to her afterwards. At first she said one council came to pick her up, when I said I had spoke to them, she changed her story and said it was the city council not county council. I said I had also spoke to them and she just said oh. I dont believe she got the council out as they dont pick up dead animals from private land and seeing as she couldnt even remember which council it was and neither council has a record of picking up any cats in our area for two weeks then I suspect that our cat has either ended up in the bin or hedgerow but she doesnt want to admit this to us.
🙁 So 2 people have confirmed the cat is dead but we have no body. The house was close to the road so I think she must have been hit by a car and tried to make her way home before succumbing.
Poor kitty 🙁
RIP 😥
Sad news. Really sorry to hear it.
So sorry to hear your sad news. RIP.
Such sad news.
Oh no - sad news.
so sorry. RIP.
Sorry to hear about Bella - RIP.
Sorry Robbo, the update nobody wanted.... Sad to hear this news.
Sad news mate, Never nice!
Damn that's the worst news.
RIP Bella.
Very sad news 🙁
Sorry to hear that.
We are fostering a lovely cat that really needs a good home, if anyone is interested. Else it goes back to the rescue soon cos we're off travelling for a while (why we don't have a permanent cat). Just wants a lap to sit on, no trouble at all (quite old but healthy). NYorks area.