My beautiful, very ancient old tomcat has been on the decline for a while now. He has multiple health problems and in the last week started to really slow down, refusing his medication, spending lots of time alone and looking generally exhausted.
I fed him at lunchtime on Saturday as he was looking for food. We then went out.
When we came back he wasn't home and was nowhere to be seen. We have a cat flap so he could come and go himself. He has been garden bound for months and wasn't really inclined to wander. I thought he wouldn't be far but as the evening went on there was no sign.
The weather was terrible and I was looking and calling for him through the evening up until quite late on. My fear was that he'd left us as he was poorly but I was really hoping he was snug inside on of the neighbours houses.
We knew that it was a matter of weeks for him but I am devastated that he has just gone, vanished.
We've informed the RSPCA, local cats home and vets etc, just in case any cats matching his description are found.
We have lots of trees at the back - when he was younger he used to go up there and sunbathe, prowl do whatever it is cats do. We suspect he must have retreated to some peaceful spot thats familiar to be on his own.
We cant look for him there as it is owned by the railway so very securely fenced off, in my less sensible moments I have been tempted to take a pair of wire cutters to the fence.
I don't know what my actual point to this post is, I'm so bloody upset and wanted to see if anybody else had been through similar. I know cats are known for this but the not knowing for certain what's happened is awful.
Thank you for reading my rambling post, it has helped just to get it out really.