Have I lost my cat or is there hope?

[cece]

Got a rescue cat last month. Kept him in for whole month as advised. He is 8-10 years old. Yesterday we let him out. We haven't seen him since. So far he has missed his evening meal (Sun) and his breakfast today.

Will he come back or has he gone?

He has been a bit nervous and has a tendency to hide away sometimes.

[RandomMess]

Good news!!!

We once cat sat in Devon and fed their 5 cats, we read through the descriptions and thought the wild feral one seemed okay. On the last day another cat turned up - very wild and feral and looking exactly the same as one of the others

[CottageCheeseAndAppleSandwich]

www.catlost.org.uk/

[cece]

[cozietoesie]

Great news, cece. We'll just call him SixDinnerCececat shall we?

[ThompsonTwins]

ExMIL's cat disappeared for three months and just walked in once night. Old Cat hid in a box when we moved house earlier this year and I thought he had run away. He came out after three days & is currently sitting on my feet. So glad he has come back cece!

[cece]

It was very tense and rather Ray Mears ish style.

I suspect he has been in a neighbours house. They have been away and came back Tuesday - just enough time for him to get hungry. The have cats themselves and a cat flap. Plus someone has been going in feeding them so I think he's made himself to that!

[bamboobutton]

Yay, was just coming on to offer glimmer of hope by saying my cat was gone for 2 weeks, came home covered in ticks.

Lol at the crystal mazeish task of getting him in the house

[bureni]

Great news, get him chipped asap and get him a collar with your adress and maybe phone number written in the inside, this will let others know he already has an owner. Also be careful with flea and worm treatments as someone else may have already treated him without your knowledge, get him registered with a local vet and make sure they include a picture in his file. Again great news but remember cats can have several families and will go walkabout when it suits them.

[Fluffycloudland77]

You must be so happy!

I wonder where he went to.

[cece]

Just to update. Our cat came home yesterday after 11 days away. He is looking very chubby, although he was pretty hungry yesterday.It was a bit of a job to get him to come into the house so we could shut the door. However, DD rigged up a piece of string to pull the door shut and I lured him in with a can of tuna.

[Fluffycloudland77]

Keep calling him, they don't go that far iirc it's a couple of miles at most

[cece]

No sign of him today either.

Will try to advertise online and with some posters tomorrow. DH phoned the local vets today so they will be looking out for him. I think I'll phone the cat rescue places tomorrow.

[HappyTurquoise]

Any news?

[Fluffycloudland77]

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2218421/Little-Puss-cat-went-missing-10-years-ago-reunited-owners-just-miles-away.html

[Mabelface]

We'd had Brian for 2 weeks when he got out. Thought he'd gone for good, but he turned up 2 days later starving hungry. :)

[safflower]

Any news on your lad?

I know it sounds daft but on www.doglost.co.uk people do list missing cats and they very often get found. Just a thought if he doesn't appear today.

[cece]

He's a big brown tabby tom cat if that is any help.

[out2lunch]

you are not down south are you cece? - i saw one tonight that looked a little lost

[glitch]

There is hope. My cat vanished for about 2 months when I moved and then just appeared again one day.

[cozietoesie]

There's always hope.

Thinking for you.

[cece]

I feel heartened by your stories of cats turning up eventually. He is from a rescue place so will phone there tomorrow. But he still is not home

On the plus side I have met a lot of my neighbours for the first tome and got to nose around their gardens. Over the hedge has a lovely swimming pool.

[Fluffycloudland77]

Ours hid under the bushes in the back garden when we had pet sitters and refused to come out, even for ham.

They offered wafer thin ham, fluffycat is more of a hand carved ham cat.

We once couldnt find one of our cats when I was little and she was in a drawer in my bedroom festooned with thongs. (they were not my thongs)

[HappyTurquoise]

We took our cats on holiday last year, to a (pet friendly) rented flat in the sticks. Both cats got out one night...the girly woke me up at 3am mewing to come in (little princess couldt hack it in the wild) and the tom was missing for 3 nights. We thought we'd lost him. He came back and was just sitting by the door one morning as if nothing was odd. He spent the next 2 days/nights hiding in a wardrobe with his paws over his eyes. (Yes, he was 'fixed').

Boy cats like to explore their territory. I do worry about busy roads in towns, though.

[piratecat]

safflower--lol. i get you.

i went spare once and this is exactly what happened. just cos they can hear you doesn't mean they will come.

[piratecat]

there's hope. i'd ring local vets to see if anyone has found him. was he chipped?
Did you go out with him? In the past i have gone out with them on a harness at first, little and often so they get the lay of the land.

call and call and shake dry cat food box?

check surrounding streets, paths, alleys hedges.