My cat has been missing now for 3 days, my family and I are distraught. He's very friendly and homely and hardly ever goes over the road, let alone out for 3 days straight.
Our neighbour moved away last week, but has popped over every day since to his old house to do odd jobs. He was very fond of our cat, we have 2 cats but it was the missing cat he especially liked because he always went in their house 
. Our neighbour always encouraged the cat to come inside etc and he always told us how much he liked him.
Anyway, our neighbour popped round his old house 3 days ago, the time our cat went missing and hasn't been back since. The new neighbours have been round a couple of times and we have asked if they can look inside the house/garage incase our cat is there but he isn't 
. He's also very vocal so if he was around our neighbourhood we would hear him .
Could this neighbour have stolen our cat? It sounds completely far fetched, but I suppose it is viable.