Long story but I really need to vent somewhere! During lockdown we had new neighbours move in two doors up. Just over a year ago one of my two cats started visiting them and going missing for a few days at a time. He was 9 and I had him and his sister from kittens. I advertised him missing on local FB a couple of times but he always came home eventually. I found out he was visiting the neighbour and contacted them to say he was ours, well loved, chipped, vaccinated and insured and definitely not a stray and please stop feeding him. Messages went backwards and forwards, her children loved him, they couldn’t put him out in the rain, etc etc. I retrieved him a few times but eventually I just couldn’t keep him home, and I asked them to shoo him away and not let them in their house but they just wouldn’t. Anyway, fast forward I haven’t seen him at home for more than a year but see him most days in their window.
This morning I took a call from the vet, he had been brought in very ill, at deaths door in fact and asked for my permission to put him to sleep. They suspected cancer in his chest as he could barely breathe. He had obviously been ill for some time and they had done nothing, they found him collapsed in the garden this morning and took him to the vet and left him there, the vet contacted me from his chip.
The neighbour didn’t even bother bringing him home or letting me know, despite seeing me on the drive this morning, probably on her way to the vet!
I am so angry and upset, he must have suffered so much just because the neighbour wouldn’t bring him home.
I have arranged for him to be cremated and will bring his ashes home, RIP Henry