FFS, It looks like some has stolen, sorry, rescued dd1's kitten AGAIN!!!!

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So we got it a collar, name on the collar etc. It learnt how to get in and out of the yard itself, so we decided to start letting out during daylight hours.

All was fine, for a few days. Then dd1 had her halloween party and it escaped while her guests were leaving . It was too dark and there were too many children running in and out to go chasing the kitten, who is more than capable of getting home alone.

Well, it's still not back. It only ever goes for an hour or two and then comes back crying at the kitchen window.

This will be the third time it has been rescued.

It's starting to get a bit ridiculous now. I have another god knows how long of comforting the dd's and hanging signs in the windows. Hopefully it will be returned again.

It's getting a bit beyond a joke now though and I am seriously thinking of putting a permanent sign in teh window asking people NOT to rescue my kitten from her own doorstep.

do you have a microchip so that if it gets "rescued" again the vets can be alerted

take loads of photos of it so you can distribute them

We were waiting on the voucher from RSPCA for the microchipping. So far only one of her rescuers bothered taking her to the vets anyway. So I am not sure how effective it would be.

She is still not back. Dd2 has placed a teddy on the end of her bed, where the kitten usually sleeps, and called it 'kitten'. She looked very forlorn.

It probably gets rescued so often because it is tiny. It is five months old and a farm cat, so loves being outside. It goes seriously nuts when it's kept in and starts headbutting windows/doors and howling.

But she only looks like she is about 12 weeks old. I just wish people would use a bit of common sense and leave her be, since she is clearly well fed/groomed etc and hardly looks stray.

Maybe someone hasnt taken her, maybe she has got lost and cant find her own way, what have you done in terms of looking for her, phoned local councils? advertise? knocked on doors?

Probably worth taking a wander around the local neighbourhood tomorrow to see if you can see her.
She may have been hurt by dog/car/fox anything esp if she is so small.

If she has a collar and tag then no-one should be picking her up - that's just naughty. I've only ever rescued one cat that had no tag/collar and looked rough as hell only for the "owner" to turn up demanding I pay them as I took their cat. I had to tell them it was at the vets and apparently the vet said that as protocol they always call the RSPCA as backup to pick the cat up and the "owner" got prosecuted for animal cruelty as the cat was 1/2 the bodyweight it should have been.

I hope you find her soon. I don't know what I'd do without my cats.

I hope she has been rescued, and you get her back.

The dog warden rescued our dog off our lawn, even though he was wearing a collar with the address that he was sitting on it. Maybe try your local shelters if she doesn't come back by tommorrow.

Phoned council/vets/rspca as per usual. Sign in our window and dd1 has asked for her teacher to mention it in her school assembly.

We have called her every night from the street/yard and walk to and from school up different streets.

No main roads near here, so I doubt she would have been hit by a car. We have checked the park. Council have said no cats at all have been ran over in our immediate area in the last fortnight.

I am confident she has been picked up by some one. She doesn't go far so any evidence of her being hurt would have been found by now.

The last two times she has been gone for more than an hour or so, she had been picked up within an hour of leaving the house.

Her name tag kept falling off so I wrote her address and number in permanant marker on the collar.

I do hope that she turns up then, poor little girl.

aww poor cat at least i suppose if she has been picked up she wont be hungry or scared.

has she been returned?

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did you get your kitten back? this happened to us when our boy cat ran off. we got him back nearly 2 weeks later!! had leaflets through doors and in the shops, vets, etc. was found by a neighbour 2 streets away. was awful. thought the same had happened when the other one got out on halloween night but think she was just hiding from the fireworks.

No, no sign of her yet. I'm going to get DH to take the dd's around the neighbourhood knocking on doors with leaflets if she is not back by Sat. But I fear whoever has her has decided to keep her.

Unless she has lost her collar, that is. Hopefully seeing dd1 asking for her kitten back, might guilt trip someone into giving it back.

I think that cute pets are found and kept, we had two dogs stolen from us, there had a been a few in the area (They were pedigree not that mattered), i was quite young when it happened but i will always remember coming home and the dogs weren't there, and they never came back was very however i hope your kitten is returned safe and sound.

Did you get her back?

A 5 month old cat howling at the window is likely to be in season - is she spayed? If not, she is likely to be pregnant

I knew someone who used to entice the cats that came into their garden and then catch them and drive them miles away from their homes and dump them!

If the kitten has been missing since haloween, she'll have been out through all the fireworks. To be honest, I wouldn't hold any hope of her coming back now.
Sullysmum, that's awful. There are some nasty people about.
One of my cats once went missing. He was microchipped. TWO YEARS later I got a call from my vets to says someone had brought him in. They had kept him as a pet for all that time, without taking him to the vets. I was furious but there wasn't much I could do except let them keep him.

Sullysmum - that is dreadful

Shiny - I really hope you get her back.

We have a kitten - he's the apple of everyone'e eye here. He's only 10wks old. I'm dreading letting him out, but it won't be for a while yet.