Dcat aged 3, lives with us and her sister cat, has done for 2.5 years. All fine.
Recently she disappeared for 8 days. We put up posters, notes on Facebook and through doors.
She just appeared back one morning looking fine and healthy.
We kept her inside for 2 days then let her out because she was so miserable.
She stayed at home for maybe a week then disappeared again for 4 days. She's come back this morning. The weather has been awful here, non stop rain for 3 days. Surely she hasn't been living rough all that time. Last time she went missing was that freakily warm week and she came home when the weather turned colder.
What, if anything, would you do?
We'll keep her in again for a couple of days but does that just make her desperate to escape and not come back? I'm worried that keeping her in makes her hate living with us even more.
When we let her back out we'll put a note on her collar saying she has a home, please don't feed her.
I sort of feel like if she doesn't want to live with us any more there's not much we can do but is that a bit defeatist?
We had a gps tracker thing a while back but she's quite a small cat and she hated wearing it. We were always hunting round the gardens when she'd managed to wriggle free of it. But we might try again with that to see if we can work out where she's going.