Anyone's cat been missing more than a couple of days and come home?

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Cat last seen on Tuesday morning. We're doing all the usual things to find him but no luck so far. I just want him home. He's chipped and everything.

Anyone got any reassuring stories for me?

Mine got the hump that we'd gone on holiday and went missing for a fortnight. Followed the tips above as well as putting unwashed clothes of ours on the line so she could pick up our scent. Someone saw the post on Facebook and said they'd seen a similar cat up a country lane nearby. Had a couple of evenings walking the lane calling her without seeing anything. The next day she just strolled in as if nothing had happened.

Mine went missing for 2 weeks about 4 years ago. He sauntered back in without a care in the world. Turns out that my neighbour feeds strays and he was eating there and wherever else would feed him.

We were worried sick but the cat didn't give a stuff.

Yes our first cat went missing for a couple/three weeks! In the end, mum went up to the railway station and found her!

Yes, I had one cat go missing for about 3 weeks. We then got a call from a vet to say that an elderly lady a few streets away had taken him in. She was unaware of chipping until a younger relative visited and advised her to have him checked. He'd been missing for 2 weeks when he appeared in her garden demanding to be fed. He lived for another 16 years and never went walkabout again. Another one hadn't been with us very long (both cats were separate rescues) and had just got to the stage where he was starting to go out but always came in at night. Anyway, one stormy night he didn't come home. We searched and called, left food out, put posters up. I was distraught...then around a week later he just sauntered in the door looking as fat as ever and looked at me disdainfully when I scooped him up and smothered him with kisses and tears of relief. We've moved house twice with him since then and not had a repeat performance. Good luck finding yours op

One of my cats went missing in August. He showed up at home last week! Just came sauntering out of the spare room with his brother in the morning.

Yes, just be prepared for the cat returning without giving a toss to your upset and worry!

7 weeks... and I walked the streets and cried every night!
The vet though he had been hit by a car and knocked senseless and unable to find his way home (he was certainly a bit thick ever after) . I just FELT he wasn't dead and one day found him in a field a mile away, thin and covered in fleas but SO glad to be found.

Obie, current beastie got locked in a neighbours house for 5 days when he snook in as she was loading her holiday suitcase into her car. He has form for it, stupid boy as he sneaks into all the neighbours' houses!

Cats do enjoy putting us through the ringer!

A cat belonging to a neighbor of mine went missing for a few days. Turned out to have sneaked into another neighbors garage and skulked in there for two days until the garage owner needed their car.
A mostly white cat curling up on a black soft top sports car makes quite a mess!

One of mine used to regularly go missing, sometimes for weeks on end. Then just as everyone was fearing the worse she’d walk back in, tail up like she’d been away for ten minutes.

5 weeks... 5 long weeks of many, many miles walked searching and lots of tears!

He was less than half a mile away, but he’d crossed a very busy A road and because he’s so timid we never thought he’d cross it so hadn’t searched beyond it.

I hate him going out now...

Not my cat but a neighbour's. Was missing a week then returned - she thinks it was probably locked in a shed/garage by accident.

My dearly departed piss went missing one September. Turned up filthe and scrawny on xmas day. Just wandered in! I'd given up all hope. She last til she was 20years old, became known as the cat that wouldn't die! Loved that daft cat

Piss🤣🤣🤣
Puss!!!

She just walked in again after 7 months as if she had never been away! She was well fed and her coat was in good condition. The rest will always be a mystery.

3 months! We got a call from Petlog as he'd been cruising the sheltered housing complex and all the ladies were feeding him until one of the carers pointed out that he might have an owner and someone scanned him. Fat as butter he was!

My friend’s cat was missing for a year, then turned up out of the blue

Yes - my cat fell out with us for a week after we took her to the vet for her booster. She was in a bush in a cul de sac opposite our house the whole time and watched me knocking on doors, shaking cat biscuits and making a plonker of myself for days. Nonchalantly reappeared non the worse out of the bush - I suspect she waited for me to go to work, nipped home for food and then went back to her sulky hideout. She's very cute though! Hope you get good news soon x

I walked around the local streets calling out his name. It's a rough area. I'd pretty much stopped by the time he was found.
One thing, make sure you have a distinctive photo (not 100s of cute curled up in a ball sleeping ones) and that you know of any distinguishing marks.
Don't be surprised if you get sightings that aren't of your pet but of a vaguely similar one - these can be upsetting.

Yes, many times! They have always come home. I think the longest was just over 2 and a half weeks.

Fingers crossed OP. Hope your boy is home soon.

I wonder if they realise what they put us through. I missed him so terribly that I looked into getting a replacement.I didn't because I didn't really want any cat, I wanted CAT. That would have been a shock for him!

Yes, she went missing for about a week. We eventually found her hiding in the garage - where we'd searched initially, so she must have come back to it later.

A cat of ours went missing for 10 days once, we think he got locked in someone's shed on a nearby allotment. Hope your cat is soon back with you OP.

My childhood cat went missing for 6 months! My gran stayed at ours to look after him whilst we were away and he buggered off!

We did the usual posters, leaving out food etc then one night he just came through the cat flap, was a bit skinny and needed a wash but otherwise all fine.

Yes, my girl was missing for 11 days, I was distraught. Checked all neighbours and all neighbours' barns and garages and sheds for about a 4 mile radius. On the 11th day the nearest neighbour thought they'd heard something in the rafters of their garage, so I went round and there she was, up overhead. Skinny and dehydrated and so pleased to see me I cried. She's a little butterball now, and I try to keep her that way, just in case she needs her reserves again.

But do try the neighbours again - they may not necessarily spot a cat lurking at the back of their shed, even if they have checked when you asked the first time and I don't think mine had the bastards