The girls had a big sleepover party last night and now one of my cats has disappeared. It's the boy who isn't scared of noise or anything and is very food orientated so this is very worrying. I was up until 1am calling him but no sign and this morning expected him to be there ready for breakfast :no:

We have been out scouring the neighbourhood, the girls and their friends have been knocking door to door but stil nothing, have rung the vets, searched the attic, everything.

My main worry is the nasty neighbours, they have threatened to throttle our cats (such nice people) and when one of the girls' friend knocked on the door she said that the woman was horrible, abrupt and shut the door in their face (and this friend didn't know any of the problems we have with this woman)

I don't know what else to do or where else to look :cry:

Oh Heather :( :hug:

Make some posters and put them on the telephone poles and remind people to check their sheds. My sister lost two birds the other week when her son accidently left the door open after feeding them. Never expected to see either of them again, yet a week after they went a notice was put up along my road to say that a bird had been found. Apparently the people had seen him on their back terrace, opened the door and he flew in straight to their fruit bowl and started eating an apple!

So all hope is not lost. Have the sleepy girls gone yet? Perhaps he's waiting for the house to be quiet again. :flowers:

all sleepover kids gone and T so just Nakita and I left. I didn't need this right now, my cats mean the world to me and I can't hold it together any more

Damn.


What's his name ?
I'll give him a whistle.

I hope he comes home soon :crossfingers:

Oh no. I really really feel for you. You know why.

Go and confront the neighbour. Be firm but not too unpleasant, like you mean business but no malice and just want an answer.

Watch her eyes. Say you want to look around all neighbours' garages and sheds if they don't mind. Say you are thinking of getting the RSPCA/police involved because "someone" had threatened and can you just look.
And do just that.

Good luck my thoughts are most def with you.

any news? :hug:

:no: :cry:

:( hope he comes home soon :kissed:

Oh I am so, so sorry.

Have you tried calling the RSPCA, the local pounds/shelters? The police/council/roads dept? (hate to say this but you know why the latter)

Have you been to see the bitch down the road like I suggested?

Don't know what else to say :dunno: :no:

I can't call the pound or the rangers until Monday, unfortunately, but will do so first thing tomorrow, I'll then put posters up everywhere and can't really do much more. I was very unhappy with the vets attitude so will be changing vets as soon as possible. I want a vet that cares about the animal more so than the money.

The remaining cat and dog are not happy, they can't work out what's going on. Honey is lost without her son and Mutley keeps going to the windows and door and looking for him as they were play mates. I haven't slept since Friday as I keep hoping to hear him. Very teary too :cry:

I really hope he comes home soon :hug:

Our oldest cat Pumpkin has disappeared on two occassions in the past, first time for three days and second time for four days and then strolled back in as if had just had a walk around the garden. It was very strange because he is a real home cat and normally never wanders beyond the house and garden.

Thanks Mel, I am hoping that he will come back. I have had a cat in the past that has disappeard twice, once for a few days (Was locked in the kids cubby and didn't meaow whenever I was calling her........I finally found her when she thought to sit in the window !!) and the second time she was gone for nearly two weeks and I found her wandering outside our house very skinny, disorientated with no claws left so must have been shut in somewhere . So there is still hope........but I have a feeling in the pit of my stomach that just won't go away. :no:

So sorry ,L told me last night he was missing ,first thought was your neighbours too ,she was outside glaring at us when we left yours Matt told me later.
Sure even they cant be that cruel Hasve had cats disappear before & they have always turned up in the end :flowers:

Maybe this is a dumb question, but have you thought of walking the neighbourhood with the dog and other cat in her box and hoping they bark/miaow and coax him out or maybe even Mutley might pick up the scent and sniff him out?


Edit P.S. this from a woman who has cuts and abrasions on the palms of her hands from clutching at straws this past two weeks...

It's a good idea. Honey, the mum, keeps going over to the vacant block opposite which she's never bothered with before but I have searched that. There is a large concrete wall there with a pipe running through it which we are going to get a torch to tomorrow. I am also taking Mutley out to sniff around but he loves all scents and there's loads of roos around so I am not expecting a miracle but would love one. It's been over 48 hours now and we've had lots of rain, chances are slim :cry:

No NO NO don't give up - Cats hate rain he might be sheltering somewhere. There might be some kind old lady feeding him wondering who he belongs to. You have to hold on to hope really 48 hours is nothing. I've heard of bedraggled cats turning up 3 weeks or more later announcing their arrival with a loud yowl requesting food and wondering why their plate isn't on the floor waiting for them.

Is he microchipped ( it's the law here in nsw they have to be)

Sorry rambling style I just got up hungry at 4am I cannot sleep

I feel peaceful but wrung out. I haven't been able to have a good cry yet I guess that will come later at a most inopportune time when I least expect it in the middle of Woolworths or waiting at a set of traffic lights or something.

Stay positive and keep looking and get the other pets involved. Maybe get some of the local kids involved as well and shame that cow down the road into admitting she;s hidden him in her shed or under her house or something make her suffer whether she's guilty or not she was rude and uncaring and needs to be exposed for what she is.

TC3

I'm with TC, they are remarkable at times and turn up quite unconcerned when you've been worried sick!

Stick with it, we're crossing everything for you!

We had 3 cats in the UK which we preferred to keep in at night.

Every time I fed them I gave a particular whistle so they knew if they heard it, it meant grub time. This worked a treat.

We "lost" one or the other of them on occassions and invariably they had got shut in a neighbours shed. I can remember at least 5 times.

Anyway at one stage our ginger and white tomcat didn't come home. We did the posters and phonecalls to vets but no luck. One of the vets said if he has been missing 3 weeks you are not likely to see him again. Screw you I thought.

We walked everywhere as we couldn't drive so when we went out I would always give "the whistle" along the route. Gill said to me people will think you are mad but I didn't let that put me off. :P

My idea was that through no choice of his own he may have become an adopted indoor pet so if he heard the whistle he would eventually get a chance and escape to freedom.

Anyway after 5 months he turned up on the doorstep one morning and didn't he have a story to tell. Wish I could have understood him as it sounded like a real adventure.

It is bloomin horrible not knowing what has happened; not knowing one way or the other. It's the 'ol closure thing, but while there is none then there is hope. :yes:

:omg: 5 months ?!!!! Wow, I bet you never thought you'd see him again. You must have been so pleased to see him.

I am barely sleeping at the moment as am keeping one ear open for his very vocal meow but now keep thinking we'll find him alive and well. He had no collar or microchip so, other than being well fed, someone could have thought he was lost. The search continues today.

No and yes.

I think I held out hope even longer than the rest of the family.
Would still talk to him asking him where he was. :blushing:

I think it was apt that I was the first to see him.
He bounded up onto my lap, paws on my chest and kept shoving his head into my chin. He was as pleased to be home as we were to see him.

ah, that is so nice. I wonder who was feeding him.

I have now contacted everyone I can think of. Was told in no uncertain terms by the rangers etc that they don't have anything to do with cats and have no idea what you should do if you lose one. We have just been out with Muts scouring the empty blocks but he found nothing :dunno: we, on the other hand, found three trillion mozzies and got bitten by them all :rolleyes: . Did loads more door knocking, people have some lovely memories of him but no one has seen him.

I'm now making up the posters.

I can beat that Bix. We had two cats back in Scotland, sisters they were called Honey & Amber.

We lost Amber when she was about 3 years old, did all the usual stuff contacting vets etc but nobody had seen her.

3 years later we get a phone call out of the blue that she had been found on the other side of town. A family had been feeding her but they got a new dog so took the cat to the vets & luckily she had been chipped.

WTF ?!! They fed her for three years before seeing if she was lost ???

I wish I'd had Casper chipped, other one will be chipped asap now.

Hope he turns up soon Heather.
:flowers:

I have a Casper cat too :hug:

Really hope he comes home soon Heather :yes:

Keep trying Heather with stories like this on here alone it is amazing what can happen :hug:

Keeping my fingers crossed for you that Casper turns up.
I used to worry about my Tinker when she went for a wander. (she was an indoor cat too)

Have you tried asking on local radio to see if they can help with tracking her down.

Good luck
mandyx

The one thing that I have discovered very quickly is how much a lot of people round here hate cats. :( Another neighbour (with two cats) has told me that one of the other neighbours warned them when they moved in that if a cat entered their garden the dog would be let loose and the dog hates cats. Nice.

I've managed to get a pet rescue charity to post the details on their website but they require a jpeg picture that is small and about 500mb. My pic 247 kb and I have no idea how to resize it - can anyone help me ?

Yes, H, send it to me. :kiss:

Thanks PR - could you PM me your email address.

yes I thought of local radio when I was in bed last night. I keep an eye on this thread all the time! I thought of something else as well but my brain is numb I keep blanking out when it comes back to me I'll post it - sorry! :no:

I wish I could cry and get it all out I expect the floodgates will open eventually right now I just feel blank and I'm functioning but it's a disconnected part of me that is functioning I suppose it's a protective mechanism I'm still in shock. i've also had 2 1/2 years to pre-grieve and prepare but part of me felt I could cheat it forever I think.

Sorry Heather this is your thread.

:hug: TC

It will pour out I am sure of it, but I suspect that there will be another trigger......someone will say the wrong thing or cut you up on the road. Feeling numb to begin with is normal.

I don't do cats either BUT would never wish harm on one or wish on anyone what you or TC are going throuugh right now. They are part of the family and you deserve to have dignity.

:hug: Hope he turns up soon...

You would have loved my cat Hevs. Confirmed cat-ambivalents found her enchanting, fascinating. She really was most unusual and striking.




Heather - how's it going? Any news? How is the hunt progressing? Have you got cards with photos on up in the noticeboard section of the local supermarkets where people can put up things for sale and "lost" notices? (I think that was what crossed my mind in bed the other night ...can't be sure though) Local schools/kindy where Mums drop off their kiddiwinkies? Ask around some of your local takeaways etc in case he has been scrounging round their dustbins to find food.

If I think of anything else I will post again.

:no: no sign. I have now finished the door knocking, put posters up on lamposts and in the vets, all pet shops and the one shopping centre with a notice board. It's going out on a pet rescue website today and will get some more lampost posters up and will put ads in the paper and then tomorrow will see about getting some flyers printed for neighbourhood delivery.

I keep having very vivid dreams with different scenarios and don't sleep for long periods as I keep thinking I hear him :cry:

The one thing this has really highlighted to me is that there is no cat sanctuaries near me. In fact there are only 3 in the whole of WA and 37 dog ones. If I had the money I would set one up :yes:

Heather, I'm not properly awake yet and was just cruising through, but, reading your post, a thought has occurred to me. (Yeah, alright, I did say I wasn't awake yet! :P :grin: )

Seriously though, I want you to search your house again. Be very thorough and get hubby to stick his head into the loft space with a torch. For some peculiar reason I keep thinking of the roof. :dunno: :ooer:




Sorry, just re-read that and it sounds very demanding - wasn't meant that way. :erm: :flowers:

It's funny you should say that as Honey keeps going into the garage looking at the roof and one day just kept meowing at it. OH has been right up there though and found nothing :dunno: Will have another search once I've found my daughter :she:

Try the gutters and down pipes. If Honey is looking there and you think you can hear him there is a chance he's chased something into a very small space and can't get out again.

the dog was going a bit mad around the palms so got the step ladder out to see if he was there only to discover that it was a pair of silver eye birds when one smacked into the pool fencing !! The dog and I both did a mad dash for the poor thing, luckily I got there first, it was dazed and in shock for quite a while but eventually flew off :thumbsup:

Lynn I can't actually hear Casper, I just imagine it but will get Paul up there to search thoroughly. He loves the attic and all those spiders (Paul and Casper !!!)