to feel like crying over the loss of my cat?

[CRS]

just done missing posters, but in my heart of hearts, I know he's a gone - a. No road sense and never been away for more than a couple of hours before. Sob.

Ah I do hope you find him, I have a cat, his name is Alfie and he is as much a part of my family as anyone, I would be lost without him,

I just keep thinking he'll stroll on in....

Aw Punkatheart. I feel the same about our cat who went missing four years ago. I am sure he is gone forever, but every now and then I allow myself a daydream in which he saunters back into the house.

CRS - Its not unreasonable, I was in tears when my one went missing.

And, lots of people said to me "oh mine went missing for (insert ridiculously long time) and then just turned up fine"

And I was thinking no, not my baby, he doesnt wander off.

My cat had never been out properly, never been by roads, and just disappeared one day. I had horrible images of him dying somewhere in a bush waiting for me to find him, or lost and crying for me.

I did posters and through doors (do it, who cares what they think) and he turned up.

Turned out, someone had took a shine to my very beautiful boy and after they realised the lengths I was going to and that I would never give up on him they let him go.

Hope your cat comes back safe and well

THANK YOU! X

I really hope my cat baby is in the above situation!

OP am with the ladies saying don't give up. My homebody furbrain was missing for a week. We papered the neighbourhood and staked out the vets, then 1 week later early Sunday morning the cat door thwacked and there she was! Hungry and thirsty and almost certainly as it was summer locked in a shed. Check lawns for recent mowing and ask people to check shed/garage and good luck!

Perfectly reasonable to want to cry at the loss (hopefully temporary) of a beloved moggie. We'd only had Harry Potter for about 4 months when she went missing and I was still beside myself.

Harry returned (after 3 nights) slightly injured. I suspect she had holed up somewhere until she was feeling better. Fingers crossed!

Also local Cats Protection League, RSPCA - they will put details up on their websites and it is also worth checking them for found cats.

CRS, I hope so too. He may well be.

If im honest, I was convinced mine was either dead or had been stolen. He had never even left the garden before, and then he was gone for over a week.

But I couldnt give up, and I thought even if I get blackmailed for a reward, Ineed to know what happened. Walked the streets, pestered the neighbours, rang vets etc etc.

Sometimes people just "take on" cats thinking no one will mind, or they are strays. They might well think twice when they see he's a much loved fur baby :)

Thanks people - feeling a bit more optimistic! (And wishing the pud would just COME HOME!)

Glad we cheered you up a bit, and do please come back and update when he comes home, as im sure he will.
I like happy cat stories :)

knock on doors in 2-300m radius - you'll find a lot of cat owners you never knew about whose brutes never actually go out will be willing to check for you

walk & bike round calling him - if he's disoriented he will head for your voice, or start yowling to attract attention

send other members of household to call as well

posters on lamposts

phone all the vets in 10 mile radius - they all keep a lost & found register

talk to the dogwalking fraternity & ask them to spread the word & look out for brute - that was how we found our beast eventually

talk to postman, often they can put 2 +2 together - ie lost tabby appears in a garden 3/4 mile away & postie realises there have been tabby posters on lamposts at other end of town

do not be afraid of looking like a complete fool, 99.9999% people know what it might feel like to lose their animal, so get out there and publicise

CRS, I worry when one of mine doesn't come home. He is a bprn wanderer, only just over a year old, his brother is always in his basket in the morning, but he doesn't turn up sometimes till mid afternoon.

I still have that angst that you are going through, I hope all is well and he will fly through the flap as mine does complaining at the top of his voice!

My parents, DH and I all cried for the last two, that had to be put to sleep last year, we get so attached to them.

CRS - hoping your cat will be found.

My childhood used to follow me everywhere. As a kitten she followed me a mile away and big dog came running and she just ran. Coundn't find her anywhere.

10 day's later I was in tears and decided to pack her stuff away. But guess what, 12 days later there was this scraggy little thing scratching at the front door.

Have hope - do all you can do and call animal charities that may have picked your cat up.

Oh and when she was 20 and living in my small london flat I let her out and a druggie neighbour thought her siamese wail and 20 year old gait meant she was a sick cat and called a charity which came over and picked her up. Neighbour was so high hr couldb't tell me name of charity but I called all of them and found her 10 miles away.

Have hope.

Oh CRS. YANBU.

When one of my cats went missing I was so upset.

Like you thoughts of her being lost, hurt or worse kept me awake at night.

Doing something helped, posters, door knocking etc.

One of the neighbours (whose door I'd tearfully knocked on) rang me after 4 days to say she could see my cat alive and well in her garden.

We think our cat had been shut in someone's cellar/ shed/ garage over a long weekend.

Things we did:
posters
door knocking (more than once
rang local council as dust men asked to keep records of cats who have been killed on the roads when found
rang local vets & put posters up in there
rang local Cat Protection Legue who gave us some advice like cats rarely stray beyond 2-4 gardens beyond your own and who encouraged us to go and call her shaking cat food:

we followed this advice and must have looked like utter nutters wailing 'Mavis, Mavis' .

I hope your cat comes home safe and well soon.

Thanks so much for advidce and cheering up. Trying to stay hopeful.

ADVICE, not advidce!

Hope you find your kitty.
One of mine was missing for a week -I cried my eyes out !
A week later I went to the garage to get something -he was in there -door ajar and later I found a neighbour had discovered him in his shed.
ps mine all wear "I am microchipped" collars just in case they wander.

Just been Facebook messaged - a grey and white cat has been found drowned. Next village along. Hope it's not mine.

Fingers crossed for you CRS.

for whoevers cat it is though.

oh, losing your cat is awful. It is hideous, not knowing what's happened or whether they're alive or dead. Mine went AWOL for two days once and I remember sobbing my way through putting together the missing cat poster. She did come home eventually and I hope yours does too.

Thank you! Going to bed now and just hoping the critter will return. Thank you for advice. Cxx

Oh YADNBU! We managed to lose 2 cats last year. One put down due to mystery illness. The other just didn't come home on Dec 6th. We still leave the cat flap part locked at night so he can get in (but not out again). He was also grey and white and super friendly. I hope yours comes back... it so upsetting. Even my DH cried when cat 2 went missing.

I had a lovely male Bengal cat called Charlie and 3yrs ago he went out as usual and never came back

He is microchiped and never strayed before, but a few youths down the road were messing around with air rifles that summer, so I think they might have done something.

A little boy down the road told me about a year ago that his big brother (one of the youths) killed a cat, but he was adamant that it was not Charlie.
But I still wonder.

That youth is a nasty piece of work, the same child said that his brother once put Duct tape all around a live wild duck and drowed it in a lake.
This person is training to be a Gamekeeper!