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Kitten has not come home

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Norfolknway · 16/09/2014 21:40

Our kitten is only 5 months and he plays in the front and back garden.

I have been working Late and DH said he wouldn't come in as he was playing with another cat - went straight out looking for him and I can't find him :(

This is our first cat and I'm really worried :( he's been chipped already, which I suppose is a plus.

Don't know what I'm asking really, just worrying while DH is out looking!

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AlmaMartyr · 16/09/2014 21:53

Sorry to hear that, it's horrid when you're worried about them :( If it's any consolation, my 7yo cat did that when she was young and newly outside. I was so worried, walked round the block calling for her, sat awake looking out of all the windows all night (I was pregnant so perhaps more emotional than I needed to be) and then she turned up begging for food in the early hours. Hope he's OK and turns up soon for you.

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Fluffycloudland77 · 16/09/2014 21:58

Has he been neutered?.

If you go out with a torch it reflects their eyes, he might be hiding in a bush.

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Norfolknway · 16/09/2014 22:03

That is exactly what I have just been doing! I managed to look like the pied piper of catsville as all the other cats came to my calls...just not little Eugene :(

I feel so awful for him if he's lost.

The neighbour has cats and a cat flap... I'm wondering if he's got in there as she's on holiday and unable to chuck him out

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Pensionerpeep · 16/09/2014 22:04

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Norfolknway · 16/09/2014 22:04

He hadn't been neutered, yet. He's booked in for next week.

He normally comes running when I call him in from the garden

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Norfolknway · 16/09/2014 22:05

Yup, been out with the Dreamies (hence all of the other cats following me around)

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Fluffycloudland77 · 16/09/2014 22:08

Ok, have you got a flap? When you get him back do not let him out again 2 weeks post op so that the testosterone has time to leave his body & he loses the roaming instinct.