72 Hours Missing, I'm starting to freak out Options

[Mink&WillowsMom]

Please please PLEASE if anyone can offer me happy stories of cats trotting home after 3 nights away, I need to hear it. I found this site last year after losing my beloved Mink to a car. Slowly I've come to terms with that. Three months ago I lost my father. Coping with that. (He was very ready.) I inherited his wonderful cat, Twitchit. Gorgeous big Maine Coon, he and I have loved each other for years. My other three cats like him, and he likes them, and we've smoothly been easing into a blended household. He still spends a lot of time at Dad's next door, and I feed him both places; I'll be moving there once I remodel. He's been adjusting well to Dad being gone, and just Saturday afternoon we had a nice long belly-rubbing bonding moment on the lawn.

He's used to coming and going as he wants. He's a healthy, neutered six year old, and we live in a rural area. I'm trying to reassure myself that he's just out for summertime romping. In the past he's journeyed for up to two days that I know of. His biggest nighttime threat is raccoons, there are coyotes and even cougar rumors in the county, but no one has seen any within this area that I know of. He isn't on the road or in the ditches.

Please send him your thoughts to come home, or let me find him if he's injured. And if you have any positive stories to share, I REALLY need to hear them right now. If your story has a sad ending, please don't post.

I just can't take any more losses...
Kimberly

[toonie]

I haven't the exact amount of time where he was gone, but I figure anywhere between 5 and 9 months. It was hard to mark the date because he was often gone for one or two days. This cat was not neutered, I never knew where he came from either, only that one day he appeared as a young skinny yearling begging for food along with the other barn cats. He made his way into my heart, especially because the other barn cats were not very friendly with this stranger. So he was welcomed in my house to rest and eat, and soon he would come and scratch at my screen door in the middle of the night, people used to say I wouldn't put up with this for anyone else. So he went away for that long while. But he did come back and my message is to never give up hope, the idea of putting up flyers is a good one, letting your shelters know you have a cat missing. Sometimes these cats may have two families without the families realizing this. Maybe someone has decided enough wandering and is keeping him inside with them. But it's hard and I know how you are feeling. I send you positive waves both of you Mink & Willow's mom and Paris. I send you joy:I will never forget the feeling of joy when he came back, I wish you the same to both of you. Take care and keep me posted.


Not that it matters much in the story but this cat gone for 5 to 9 months happened
a long while ago in 1984...But about a year ago a friend of mine lost her cat for about that same amount of time(5 or 9 months?) and her cat returned, she meowed in the middle of the night one night, the cries bolted my friend out of her sleep,she teared across the stairs knowing it was her cat's voice, and lo! it was. That cat came back and was trying to tell them all about it, meowing away at them, they will never know the story except that it is one that shows happy stuff happens, Please keep hoping.