Where's My Darcey? Options

[gillian]

Darcey is feral, fathered by a wildcat.

She hates to be indoors, refuses to come in and when I bring her inside against her will, she goes insane, hissing and growling and crying for ages until she gets back out. My other cat Sasha comes in throughout the night, and I wanted Darcey to as well. But she refuses. Screaming till she got out. So I had to let her out at nights, cause she's terrified of the indoors and won't settle. Her eyes get round with fright indoors. I don't know why cause I've had her since she was 7 weeks old. I think it's just the wildcat in her. She's just not like other cats, nothing like my other 2 cats. She's different, she's wild, but she's mine and she needs me and she depends on me for food and healthcare and love and someone to brush her coat and tell her she's a beautiful girl.

Shes always been fine, shows up for her breakfast in the mornings, and in the evenings for the past few weeks, I've been bringing her in and holding her, stroking her, trying to get her used to coming inside at night. I maybe shouldn't have done that now, cause she didn't show up this morning for her breakfast, and she didn't show up this evening, and I don't know where she is. I have called and called for her, but she is gone.

Its been 24 hours since I last saw her.

She might be stuck in someone's garage, she has done that before. She has no sense like that. My other cat never gets stuck in garages. I've just sent my fiancé out in the car to check the roads incase she has been run over. It's so unlikely though, cause she never goes near the roads. But it's possible.

Sasha has never gone missing in the 6 years I've had her, and Darcey has never gone missing before in her 2 years.

I can't even go looking for her myself, and I would look for her all night, but I have to stay here with my baby son.

My fiancé has just come home saying there's no sign of her anywhere so I'm sat here, knowing we'll be gone all day tomorrow, as it's my son's first birthday party. I feel really frustrated and irritated, annoyed with myself for forcing her to come indoors more; maybe that's whats driven her away, perhaps she doesn't want to come home anymore now she thinks I'll bring her in.

Where's my little cat? I'm very worried. She's only a little cat. Come home to me Darcey.

Darcey as a kitten.

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[gillian]

Day 9: Another sad day without Darcey. I got a few calls today from people who claim to have seen a tabby cat which looked like Darcey, but despite checking the areas each time, there was no sign of her, despite one lead being very promising. There is an area which we have gotten quite a few calls from. I know there are tabby cats which live there, which might be responsible for that, however there was one man who said he saw a pure tabby cat under a car, wearing a black collar with the end bit of the collar sticking out a little (as it's too big on her) and that's exactly how Darcey's collar was! But the cat had gone by the time he made the call to us, and she wasn't there when we checked the area. It's difficult following leads and getting disappointed each time. But maybe we'll find her in the end.