I've been reading all these messages out loud to DH just now. We are still missing our beautiful long-haired tabby girl, Ush, ten days after she went out at 7pm and didn't come back. She never did this kind of thing, although she loved hunting. But never more than 5 houses either way down our street. We only ever let her out at the back where there is a small river which runs down behind the gardens (she has fallen in twice but gets back out again!) as the front of the house has cars etc. We think she must have been spooked by a fox on the bank and managed to get all the way own the back of 20 houses or so onto the road. We saw her the next day run from under a car, and so did our neighbours, we went with her bowl and tried to coax her from a shed roof but as soon as I tried to get up there and she ran off. We kick ourselves, I do especially, as we didn't know how slowly you have to move at that stage. We went into the other houses, into their gardens and got no sign or sound from her. We hoped she would find her way home. I put baited cat traps from a cat charity out after three days, one in the back and one at the front of the house, but nothing has gone in there, not even a rat! We have flyered all the houses, searched in as many gardens as we can, put posters up on the streets around our house, but not further than a quarter of a mile radius seeing as the gardens she was last seen in are in a kind of square and back onto each other, giving plenty of hiding places etc. I have a hunch she's still there, or on the river bank at the back of our houses, hiding or hurt. I dream about finding her most nights, I dreamt that our beloved dog went missing too last night (they are BEST friends and the dog misses her so much, always sniffing, waiting by the back door). What more can I do? I'm so worried she's trapped and that we'll never know. Any help greatly appreciated. She is 2 and a half, and chipped and neutered.