Please give me hope that my little cat will return

[blueberrymuffin88]

My sweet little black girl, Olive has been missing since last Sunday (26th) from CV31 area. She's 2 years old this Thursday and a very petite, timid little thing. She never goes far from the house (usually just in next doors garden) and is fiercely loyal to me. She sits on me every evening purring like an engine until I go to bed then she sleeps with me on the bed. She loves to snuggle with my daughter as well and she always makes her smile.
We last saw her Sunday morning at breakfast and then she went out.
We've put up posters all round the village, gone door-to-door in the immediate streets and contacted all the vets/shelters etc. We just can't understand what could have happened to her. It's just baffling.
I need some hope that her sweet little face will appear at the cat flap any day now - that she will just turn up again like nothing has happened like so many cats do.
But the more days that go by, the worse I feel and the more I start to think that the worst has happened. I can't bear to think that she's suffering somewhere. She is microchipped but no distinguishing features unfortunately so we've had a lot of false alarms with other black cats in our village. 😢💔

Aw. My sister’s cat disappeared for over nearly three weeks, she had started to give up hope when she got a call from a woman about half an hour walk away who had found her and brought her in and fed her. She was absolutely fine.

Hopefully will work out the same for you

I’m so sorry to hear this, I can imagine the pain you’re feeling. Try emptying your hoover bag at the bottom of your garden, or in your street as the scent may give her direction home. Have you checked garages/sheds nearby?

And our dog showed up after being missing for 6 months when I was a kid!

One of my cats returned after 10 days - we don't know where she'd been but we found her hiding in the garage (which we'd of course searched right at the beginning).

I do hope she comes back. Don't give up - keep on searching .

Sorry! It's awful not knowing and looking out for them everywhere you go.
Mine went missing for 2 weeks and just turned up very skinny and frail. Not sure what happened to him so there is hope. She's definitely not shut in a shed/garage somewhere in the village? X

Thanks everyone. So many of our kind neighbours have checked their sheds/garages and I've written on the poster and flyers to ask people to check. It's absolutely throwing it down with rain here this afternoon as well so all my posters which I spent hours hanging will be ruined.
I guess there is still some hope she will turn up. I just can't understand what's happened to her. It's a real mystery 😔

Oh blueberry, how heartbreaking. What a stunningly beautiful cat.
There are many many stories of cats returning after days or weeks away from home.
Don't give up hope.

Re the outdoor posters- can you get some laminated at the printers?

Also run off loads and put through letterboxes. Notice boards at supermarkets and in community centres - the old fashioned methods do work as well as the social media stuff.

Sorry, see you have gone door to door. Also post on local Facebook sites.

Many years ago, one of my cats went missing for 10 weeks, just a few weeks before we moved house.

He was a quiet wee soul who lived with our other cat in complete harmony but a neighbour's cat had started coming into our garden and scaring them.

We had to start packing up and it broke my heart to think of him trying to come home and not finding us there. I had laminated notices up everywhere and a neighbour reported once that she thought she'd seen him near our old house but that was all. After we'd moved - just a few miles away - we went back every evening to the old neighbourhood, just in case, checking out areas where he might have been hiding, calling his name.

And then one freezing cold night, I called his name across some fields. I don't know whether he was just closer that time, or whether the stillness of the night helped, but I heard him miaow in the distance. I kept calling, and he kept miaowing closer and closer, until I saw him running towards me. He was thin and his coat was rough but he jumped into my arms and we got him safely home. Took a few weeks to get him healthy again but I was so happy to have him back. It's a horrible feeling when you don't know what's happened to them - I assume mine had been living in a wooded area beyond the fields, perhaps surviving on what he could hunt.

He lived through several moves afterwards, spent years climbing trees and sitting in the sun, before dying peacefully of old age.

So OP, don't give up. Get more posters laminated - or even into plastic bags - and put them around your village again. Do you have any online "lost cat" sites locally or online rescue groups? They'll usually share your posts. Good luck

@Lastleafonthetree
That set me blubbing . So glad he came home to you.

One of my cats got out twice, and returned 11 days later both times and is very attached to me, nervous and never goes out. One cat took 13 months to return and lived another 15 years to the grand old age of 22! Fingers crossed she will be back soon xx

One of ours turned up after 6 weeks. It was a local Facebook lost and found pets group that finally found her several miles away.

It might be worth checking with neighbours if they've had any deliveries in that timescale? I know of a cat that went into a dhl van and ended up several miles away. The owners got her back though. Really hope she turns up soon x

One of my cats went AWOL for nearly 4 weeks. He was found eventually by a very kind lady from Cat Protection who worked at my local vets, and recognised him from there (I’d notified them he’d gone missing).
I really hope your girl is home safe and sound soon!

My cat turned up at the back door after six weeks! I am sure yours will come home in the end

Aw that's so sad and a coincidence because someone just made a thread about finding a cat in a bag that someone dumped outside their house. The cad had a chip but no address linked to it so the poster was asking if it was OK for her to keep the cat. No idea what happened or where it was though. Hopefully someone is looking after your cat until it returns.

I don't know how to link but the thread was called, "if I find a car and no one claims it can I keep it?"

She knows where she's loved, fed and wanted. Your cat will come home.

We had a cat that escaped shortly after we had adopted it. Our fault, we left a window open. However, we left food for it which it was coming back for. We then altered the cat flap so he couldn't get back out again until we were confident he knew where he lived.

We also adopted a cat who didn't like us and de-camped to live with a family in the neighbouring street. After she had been gone for three months, we got a call from a local vet who had identified her from her i.d. chip. We said the new owners could have her. My husband wondered where had she been in the intervening three months.

Another time, we were concerned because our cat had not been seen since Sunday. All week he was missing, and we wondered where he had gone. Not to worry, by 5.30pm on Friday there he was at the back door wanting his tea. He had been accidentally locked in a shed or garage or outbuilding of some sort we assume. Apparently, if cats do get stuck in a building they lick the condensation and eat spiders and insects to survive.

Mine was missing for 8 days. I was inconsolable, up at 5am every morning searching, I stuck flyers through about 500 houses on my own, searches everywhere
He appeared at the door, the vet thought he got stuck somewhere and was able to get out when he lost a little weight
It's a mystery, he didn't smell of anything, had a few leaves on him but nothing else and he's a real home cat
For weeks after if I even opened a window he would scream at me

Our Jeannette went missing for about 3 weeks once. She was gone so long we adopted Jayda because Biggie was lonely. Then we found her outside. Hubby did not want a third cat at the time, and my parents were looking for a second cat to keep their Lady Jane company, so Nettie went to live with them, where she is still. Lady Jane went missing for a couple of weeks, too, but she returned home as well.

I hope your little kitty comes back soon. She gorgeous girl. A lovely mini-panther.

Any news OP?

Mine went missing for 17 days over Christmas and New Year. We think she got shut in somewhere as she was a lot skinnier, but she just popped up on the window ledge one morning like nothing happened!

It was the worst feeling not knowing where she was, and after about 5 days I was convinced we'd never see her again, but turns out it's quite common for them to go off on extended holidays!

Don't give up hope

it's quite common for them to go off on extended holidays!

Yeah, I used to describe our cat's brief summertime disappearance as his annual camping trip !

Have you contacted Cats Protection and put it on the local Facebook page for missing cats