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My cat has gone missing

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madasa · 29/12/2013 17:19

My cat has gone missing and I am beside myself.
He is a ragdoll and an indoor cat.
I think he must have got outside about 5pm yesterday as that is the last time the door was opened, noticed him missing this morning.
Have knocked on all neighbours doors and registered him missing with microchip company.
My DP has gone out walking and now on his motorbike to see if he can spot him.
He is such a friendly cat, he would go to anyone that showed him any affection. I am hoping someone has taken him in and as it's a Sunday not quite known what to do with him.
I don't know why I am posting this but is preferable to pacing the room and staring out of the window.
He has never been outside, I am not sure he would even know how to find his way home if he wandered, plus he is not the smartest of cats. sad

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cozietoesie · 29/12/2013 17:59

Afwul, eh? But at least he's chipped - and a ragdoll is very spottable. Fingers crossed for him.

RandomMess · 29/12/2013 18:02

Happened to MILs persian - he did come back, they hunted high and low but he suddenly appeared by the front door. Can you leave it open when you're home?

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madasa · 29/12/2013 18:33

Thanks for your replies. Can't leave any doors open or our other ragdoll might leave home! DP is off all next week so at least he will be around if he does show up.
RandomMess was your MIL's cat an indoor cat? How long was he missing for?

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RandomMess · 29/12/2013 20:12

Yes pretty much an indoor cat wouuld wander out the back garden in fair weather when PILs sat out there with them - very small and clueless (aka thick). He was missing overnight and there a loads of foxes around so a very worrying time as he is so short he couldn't jump anywhere to hide.

Tinyfeetbiggob · 29/12/2013 20:17

We lost one of ours for about five days when she was a kitten. Someone had picked her up and taken her home ( she's very friendly and not too bright). We found her because we put up posters with a photo - she was with a family who lived only about 200 yards from our house. I hope she finds her way home I remember how horrible the worry was.

cozietoesie · 29/12/2013 20:20

Seniorboy darted out the door for some reason one night earlier this year. He hadn't got a flipping clue what to do and was retrieved from next door's garden, serendipitously, by one of a group of Japanese students who were passing. (I kid you not - the bowing was huge on both sides.)

I think you'll get him back.

cozietoesie · 29/12/2013 20:32

PS - check under the shrubs in nearby gardens, I think it most likely that he'll have hunkered down close by.

Fluffycloudland77 · 29/12/2013 20:39

If you go out at night with a torch their eyes reflect well in the torchlight.

I think you need lots of posters, if you have insurance they will sometimes pay for it.

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madasa · 29/12/2013 20:39

Thank you so much for your replies.

RandomMess George is also pretty 'thick'. Ragdolls are not known for being particularly bright. He is so adorable, I just hope someone hasn't taken him in and decided to keep him.

I will put up posters tomorrow when I can print them at work and also phone the vets to see if anyone has reported a spare cat in their home.

Am encouraged by tales of cats returning home....thank you.

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madasa · 29/12/2013 20:41

fluffycloud I have checked my insurance and think they will pay for it. Thanks for tip re torchlight....will try that.

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RandomMess · 29/12/2013 20:41

Yep MIL had ragdolls too, although I can honestly say they have more brains and get up and go than the persians

cozietoesie · 29/12/2013 20:42

madasa

If someone took him in, he's alive and well. That would be a result for him if not for you.

Let us know how you get on.

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madasa · 29/12/2013 20:47

That's true cozietoesie and I have thought that , but I just want him back Sad

Will update.

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madasa · 29/12/2013 20:48

RandomMess am finding it difficult to imagine any cat with less brains than my two ragdolls!

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RandomMess · 29/12/2013 20:59

Well it took the current persian 2 years to work out if he jumped onto the kitchen bin he could then jump onto the worktop to scavenge food... and he is a particularly food focused greedy cat.

Although one of her ragdolls did have form for laying in the middle of the road playing dead, another one kept trying to be top cat and beat up an older HUGE persian which just used to splatter the ragdoll with his monsters paw, the ragdoll never did learn...

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madasa · 29/12/2013 21:11

So her ragdolls did go out? Am hoping this is just like any cat going out for the first time, they come back when they feel like it.

My older ragdoll Tilly has never been fond of George. If she wasn't so thick I would think she'd opened the front door herself and kicked him out!

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RandomMess · 29/12/2013 21:14

Yes all of her Ragdolls (there were at least 3 adults if not more) had the option of going out. As did the persians (there have been at least 3 adults of those too) but none of them bothered to try and leave the back garden!! The one that escaped for some reason went out the front door and we think panicked.

I asked dh which were the thicker breed, he says the persians but not much in it Grin

RandomMess · 29/12/2013 21:15

Oh and interesting the female ragdoll was not impressed by any other the cats, nor any other human apart from MIL! Everyone/thing else was merely tolerated (including her kittens when she had those.)

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madasa · 29/12/2013 21:49

Tilly is just like that, she has no interest in anybody except for me and occasionally DP, oh and interestingly enough my DD when she is home from uni.

George on the other hand is anybody's for a bit of affection although he is attached to me to the point that he drives DP mad when he sits by the front door crying if I am late home from work. Sits on the edge of the bath while I'm trying to have a bath in peace and generally gets in the way.

Will try not to worry.

He will be sat on the naughty stair if and when he returns though.

Thanks for diverting my mind from it for a while.

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RandomMess · 30/12/2013 22:30

Still no news Sad

One of the persians used to love walking around the edge of the bath, dh said he's never maanged such fast reactions as the day she fell in...

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madasa · 31/12/2013 08:21

He's home! DP found him at 2.00am in the back garden, scared, grubby but ok.

Have never been so relieved.

The little sod waited until just after I had spent £s getting leaflets printed and walked miles delivering them to about 150 houses!

Is now snuggled up next to me as if he has never been away.

Older cat who merely tolerates him is walking around with a look on her face as if to say "I thought it was too good to be true"

Thank you all for your support.

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MirandaWest · 31/12/2013 08:22

So glad he's back :)

thecatneuterer · 31/12/2013 10:23

Oh that's great news.

Fluffycloudland77 · 31/12/2013 10:23

Good, now we just need madrats cat to get in the damn trap already and we can have two happy endings.

RandomMess · 31/12/2013 19:15

Fabulous news x

What was dp doing out in the garden at 2am...