and perhaps drove off with him and dumped him somewhere far from home??
Kitten (6mos) went missing last week. He was let out at 6pm by DD (who now blames herself for him not coming back) but DH went out 30 mins later and came back an hour after that so kitten had two chances to come back in (no catflap as did not want kitty coming in with 'presents') and would not normally stay out long and it was raining. No sign of him since despite a massive search, leaflet drop etc.
Now the morning after he went missing, DD noticed neighbour coming out of his house and running to his car with a cat carrier, then driving off. When she told us this and asked whether he could have taken him, we told her not to be silly as they have a cat (and a dog)and it could be that one of them were ill.
Since then, the neighbour has taken an extraordinary interest in our search for the kitten (never usually said more than two words before - very ignorant) and has told me about of one of his cat's going missing and never coming back. This morning I said to him (to guage his reaction) that I hoped somone had not driven off with him and dumped him somewhere and he immediately said 'oh, that happens a lot round here, seen it in the newspaper, cats & dogs go missing all the time' etc and I thought that he seemed nervous and bit jumpy.
They got a dog recently and we have seen our kitten sitting on their fence seemingly sticking out his tongue while the dog goes crazy and barks like mad so are thinking that perhaps they got fed up with him and hatched a plan to get rid of him. They have never complained about him to us though.
AIBU and highly paranoid to think this? Would a person with DCs and pets themselves (our DCs are devastated about it)be capable of this do you think??