Page 5 | My cat returned after a year missing

Newnamefor2021 · 2021-03-15T18:49:46+00:00

Not sure if anyone cares 😆 but wanted to share my good news! Over a year ago out cat didn't come home, totally out of character. We walked the streets etc but a few days children were home shielding and then straight from that we went into lockdown. Everyday the children say how much they miss her still. A few days ago we get a call saying "are you missing a cat?" Husband looks around at the cat we have, and answers no. They say, we have you down as an owner of a cat we scanned. My husband face was confused and asked "a grey cat"? Yes they said. We couldn't believe it. Like I said it's been over a year. Someone had seen her back on NOV but she hasn't let them near and it wasn't until last week they managed to get her and bring her to the vet, who scanned her. She's settling in really well, she's a little nervous but she's currently sat on my husbands lap purring away. I keep pinching myself, I can't believe she's home!

WithIcePlease · 15/03/2021 21:37

Thank you for posting this has really made me smile and wow what a beautiful cat! 😊

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Newnamefor2021 · 15/03/2021 21:43

@Frazzled2207

You win Mumsnet today op! Lovely story I hope she setttles back in soon and doesn’t wander off again.

Thank you. Me too. Vet said keep her in for awhile but I'm terrified of letting her out again.

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Newnamefor2021 · 15/03/2021 21:43

@camelfinger

I love how your cat probably had one of the biggest adventures of all of us over the past year. Didn’t want to lock down!

Haha. Yes I agree, if on,y I had known I might have left with her the last 12 months 😂

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Newnamefor2021 · 15/03/2021 21:46

@TomorrowIsAnotherDae

I’m happy for you OP 😻

I reunited a stray that was hanging around near me in winter with his owners. My neighbour was feeding him but putting him out at night. The poor thing just cried outside NDN’s door all night. I decided to get him checked out at my own cat’s vets for fleas and general health and I would take him in overnight. Turned out he was chipped and had been missing for 6 years! Like another post up thread, his owners had moved about half a mile away and he’d just run off one day and not made it back. They put up flyers for him but no luck.

Hopefully when it’s safe to do so I’ll pop round for a cuppa and catch up with his owners and a cuddle with the little fella.

Oh that's so lovely, what a lovely and kind thing to do. So grateful for kind people. The person who brought ours to the vet brought a bag of food too, said she wasn't sure we would have food so might as well have it. So kind. I'm going to send some flowers. I offered to pay her for her kindness and she said no.

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Newnamefor2021 · 15/03/2021 21:47

@amylou8

That's great news! My cat Daisy arrived on our doorstep as a stray. We got her scanned and it turned out she lived about a mile away, and had been missing for almost a year. In the interim her family had got a dog and didn't feel it was fair to have her back, so she stayed with us. She's decided she's had enough of the great outdoors, and apart from a potter half way down the garden if the sun is out, she's a permanent fixture curled up on the bed.

Awww that's so lovely.

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Cocopogo · 15/03/2021 21:49

Aww that’s lovely.

My cat went missing a few years back, a year later I was buying a used car at local showroom and there she was, curled up in a basket, very overweight and renamed Ferrari!
I left her there as she was so happy and settled.

MiddleClassMother · 15/03/2021 21:53

How lovely! I love seeing positive stories like this❤️

PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 15/03/2021 22:00

What a nice read, I'm so glad she's come home.

A friend of mine (now WFH) had one who started coming and falling asleep on her garden bench last April, and then it learned to open the back door and let itself in! When it got colder, it started crying at night when she tried to put it out, and clearly wanted to spend the night in her house. So she worried it was a stray and took it to the vets, who found out who it belonged to and they rang them.

Apparently it was going home briefly every day , eating and then disappearing back to my friend's. They think that having four children at home was too much for it, so it had gone to find somewhere more peaceful! So my friend currently has a timeshare in a cat. She's waiting to see whether it will go home now the children are back at school.

cricketmum84 · 15/03/2021 22:02

That's lovely news. One of ours has been missing for 2.5 years so you are giving me a little hope.

AndWhatNext · 15/03/2021 22:03

I love this.

TooExtraImmatureCheddar · 15/03/2021 22:23

My PIL have a similar story with their dog - except they are the new owners. They adopted a dog, and they knew he was a stray but had been assured that although he was chipped, the owners couldn’t be traced. The rescue said that they’d updated the chip with PIL’s details. Fast forward seven years and they moved house, and FIL contacted the chip company to update the address. Lo and behold, the chip company said that they still had the dog registered to someone else, and they would attempt to contact them before they would agree to update the chip. And they did find the old owners, who were absolutely gobsmacked to hear that the dog they lost 7 years ago, when he was only 2, was alive and well. PIL were really upset thinking they’d want the dog back but the old owners said that as so much time had passed PIL could keep him. They sent lots of photos and it’s all ended well. They never did find out why the chip company managed to trace the original owners so easily but the rescue didn’t or couldn’t.

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Newnamefor2021 · 16/03/2021 09:59

@TooExtraImmatureCheddar

My PIL have a similar story with their dog - except they are the new owners. They adopted a dog, and they knew he was a stray but had been assured that although he was chipped, the owners couldn’t be traced. The rescue said that they’d updated the chip with PIL’s details. Fast forward seven years and they moved house, and FIL contacted the chip company to update the address. Lo and behold, the chip company said that they still had the dog registered to someone else, and they would attempt to contact them before they would agree to update the chip. And they did find the old owners, who were absolutely gobsmacked to hear that the dog they lost 7 years ago, when he was only 2, was alive and well. PIL were really upset thinking they’d want the dog back but the old owners said that as so much time had passed PIL could keep him. They sent lots of photos and it’s all ended well. They never did find out why the chip company managed to trace the original owners so easily but the rescue didn’t or couldn’t.

Wow. That's amazing. Crazy that they re-homed the dog without checking. Your poor parents must have been beside themselves when they found out.

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Newnamefor2021 · 16/03/2021 10:01

@PolkadotsAndMoonbeams

What a nice read, I'm so glad she's come home.

A friend of mine (now WFH) had one who started coming and falling asleep on her garden bench last April, and then it learned to open the back door and let itself in! When it got colder, it started crying at night when she tried to put it out, and clearly wanted to spend the night in her house. So she worried it was a stray and took it to the vets, who found out who it belonged to and they rang them.

Apparently it was going home briefly every day , eating and then disappearing back to my friend's. They think that having four children at home was too much for it, so it had gone to find somewhere more peaceful! So my friend currently has a timeshare in a cat. She's waiting to see whether it will go home now the children are back at school.

I have four myself 😆 which is why I never understood why she chose us. Frankly if I had the choice I wouldn't 😆 she seems so happy to be home though. She's starting going and asking the children to feed her like she used to. We are feeding her, but she would always nag the kids and she's back to doing that. It's crazy really.

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Newnamefor2021 · 16/03/2021 10:02

@cricketmum84

That's lovely news. One of ours has been missing for 2.5 years so you are giving me a little hope.

Aww I'm so sorry, I hope you get good news one day soon. It's awful not knowing.

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TokyoSushi · 16/03/2021 10:06

Our DCat was missing for 17 weeks a few years ago. Honestly, we thought he had been in an accident and we'd never see him again. One night about 11pm I had a call, it was from one of those ' lost animals army' types of people who go out with a scanner tracing missing pets.

He had been hanging out at the massive Royal Mail sorting centre, about 3 miles from our house and somebody from there had called the pet army in, we were delighted to have the grumpy little bugger back, he's 13 now and has never done anything like that again.

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 16/03/2021 10:19

That's really nice for you.

(I hope the cat isn't thinking 'Oh God no, I'm back where I bloody started...' )

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Newnamefor2021 · 16/03/2021 10:25

@TokyoSushi

Our DCat was missing for 17 weeks a few years ago. Honestly, we thought he had been in an accident and we'd never see him again. One night about 11pm I had a call, it was from one of those ' lost animals army' types of people who go out with a scanner tracing missing pets.

He had been hanging out at the massive Royal Mail sorting centre, about 3 miles from our house and somebody from there had called the pet army in, we were delighted to have the grumpy little bugger back, he's 13 now and has never done anything like that again.

Oh wow! I'm hoping mine never does anything like it again. She seems very happy with all the fuss and ability to sleep all day 😆

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Newnamefor2021 · 16/03/2021 10:26

@TwoLeftSocksWithHoles

That's really nice for you.

(I hope the cat isn't thinking 'Oh God no, I'm back where I bloody started...' )

Haha! Me too. She seems to like us and be happy but you can never really tell can you. She always had freedom before and chose to stay, but she's not currently allowed out so do wonder if she's just happy and affectionate to win us over to let her out 😆

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EmmaStone · 16/03/2021 11:09

This is such a lovely story, I'm so glad she's home!

When I lived in London, I re-homed from Battersea the most beautiful long-haired calico cat. She was really friendly and tame, but had come to Battersea as a stray, it seemed strange.

She settled in with us nicely, but she was a complete wanderer. There was a convent about half a mile away. She'd mosey over to the bus stop, and then follow the nuns home . Everyone locally knew her. One day I got a call (because of her wandering tendancies, my phone number was on her collar - thankfully she never minded collars), she was about 4 miles away. I can only imagine she'd actually got on a bus, as she hadn't been missing, and it was such a long way away. I quickly realised how she'd ended up at Battersea, and felt bad for her original owners who would never have known what happened to her. Unfortunately, her daring nature got the better of her and she was killed by a car when crossing over to the bus stop. A lovely woman came to us crying that she'd found her. RIP Thisbe.

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Newnamefor2021 · 16/03/2021 11:17

@EmmaStone

This is such a lovely story, I'm so glad she's home!

When I lived in London, I re-homed from Battersea the most beautiful long-haired calico cat. She was really friendly and tame, but had come to Battersea as a stray, it seemed strange.

She settled in with us nicely, but she was a complete wanderer. There was a convent about half a mile away. She'd mosey over to the bus stop, and then follow the nuns home . Everyone locally knew her. One day I got a call (because of her wandering tendancies, my phone number was on her collar - thankfully she never minded collars), she was about 4 miles away. I can only imagine she'd actually got on a bus, as she hadn't been missing, and it was such a long way away. I quickly realised how she'd ended up at Battersea, and felt bad for her original owners who would never have known what happened to her. Unfortunately, her daring nature got the better of her and she was killed by a car when crossing over to the bus stop. A lovely woman came to us crying that she'd found her. RIP Thisbe.

Poor Thisbe. Sounds like Thisbe has a wonderful life though. Maz was a little like that. She never crossed roads before but my mum lives around the corner and she would follow us there or even go to visit b5 herself 😆 follow the children to school as far as the road (which was exactly opposite the school gate), so everyone local to us knows her and she would jump in our car sometimes as she just wanted to be with us, she clearly didn't like the car much but she still did it.

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EmmaStone · 16/03/2021 11:20

Haha, I love the characters cats have, they're so entertaining and daft!

2020nymph · 16/03/2021 12:30

Aww, what lovely news!

Moonface123 · 16/03/2021 12:41

This has just made me cry.
I love my two cats so very much.
Am so happy for you all.

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Newnamefor2021 · 20/03/2021 16:28

Thought you might appreciate an update! She's so happy and settled. Lots of cuddles and she seems much more like her old self!

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IsFuzzyBeagMise · 20/03/2021 16:34

That's lovely, op. I'm delighted for you.

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