Please share your 'lost pet coming home' stories.

[TravellingSpoon]

Our cat is missing. She never goes very far and hardly ever goes out. She went out yesterday at 4pm and hasnt been back since. I know that doesn't sound like a lot but she is usually out for 5 minutes and back, she doesn't go out at night.

DD is distraught and nothing I can say can make it better. Please share your positive stories to cheer me up.

So glad your cat’s back op.
Ours went missing for 5 days one winter. It snowed so I was sure she wouldn’t have survived but she did. She had been trapped between a fence and a shed. Someone heard a meow and pulled in the fence and she darted out at the exact same time my neighbour happened to be looking out his window. Neighbour called us immediately and we went out to find her cowering under a hedge, terrified. She slept next to a radiator for 2 days.
The relief when she was home! You really do realise how precious the little furry beasts are when they go missing don’t you?

I lost one of my cats for two weeks after moving house. She was spotted by someone eating the bread for the birds in his garden and he phoned me. This was long before mobile phones and social media. I advertised in the local paper and also put postcards with her picture and my details into lots of shops locally.

I was lucky to get her back as there is a massive ex-military airfield nearby and if she'd gone onto there, I doubt I would have ever seen her again.

Glad she's back. I had a cat with congenital difficulties which made him have no homing instinct. He'd follow people and end up lost.

I once got him back two weeks after he went missing. He was in a block of flats a few miles away being fed on wafer thin ham.

Putting up lost posters is what reunited us if it ever happens to anyone else.

Glad she's back! I know someone whose tortoise went missing from her back garden, only to reappear about 20 years later. She had wandered a considerable distance, been taken in as a stray by another family, then wandered back again after all that time. They found her alive and well in the garden, it was obviously her because of a distinctive piece of chipped shell. My friend ended up locked in a sort of custody dispute for a while!

My cat also went missing for nearly a whole day, I could hear miaowing coming from what seemed to be the walls and I was going made trying to find where he was stuck. He turned out to have got himself into the attic. My mum's cat did similar and was found in the drinks cabinet. It was next to a radiator so must have been nice and warm.

Great news @TravellingSpoon, what a relief. The not knowing is awful.

You must be so relieved OP, really pleased for you

Our cat went missing last year, very unlike him so we knew something was the matter. Posted in all local groups and put leaflets through where we lived but went out each night after dark calling him.

Evening of day 5, we found him, he was on a railway line but on the embankment on the other side of the track from where we live, I've never heard such loud or frantic meows but thankfully he was fine but hungry.

We knew we had to keep looking as he was chipped so if anything had happened to him we would have been notified, good luck.

Sorry , just read he's back, that's great news.

Our cat went missing for almost a week. She then suddenly tuned up at the back door absolutely ravenous. I have a feeling she got locked in someone’s shed or something & they didn’t realise she was there. If she’d been just out & about she could have hunted for food or if another family were feeding her she wouldn’t have been so hungry when she came home.

So pleased for you.

Cats are absolute buggers! Ours went missing for 8 weeks - whilst doing flyers etc it turned out two other houses on our road thought it was a stray they had taken in and had been feeding - the greedy sod had been eating at 3 houses!!! They were distraught aswell. We spent 8 weeks searching, going round the backs of shops, bins etc. No sign.

Really weirdly my Mum and Dad's best friend's next door neighbours found him and took him in - so M&D's bfs saw him and alerted us - they lived about 4 miles away. Absolutely bizarre. We all cried!

Oh ours went for almost a year but it was the bloody neighbour feeding it. I kept going round there and once she opened the door, denied it and he appeared from the house. The only way I managed to get him and keep him was spoiling him with extra special food for weeks. Cats have no loyalty’s.

We had a cat that regularly went walk about, once for almost 6 months and then was on the doorstep one night waiting for us!

Just saw the update. So pleased for you OP