Lost Cats Options

[sheri]

****************HI!!! I have moved this post to "Death and Dying" for better readership, responses, and comfort....*****
Please write and respond to Sheri, and let her know if you have ever had your furbabies "vanish into thin air".....
PLEASE READ AND RESPOND...................THANK YOU!!!!**************



Hi, I'm new here. What brought me here is my missing cat,Mia, that I haven't seen since last Thurs AM.
I just read the last post by Leigh from May 2004. I know all to well exactly how you feel. I've wondered for along time if there was a place I could move to that my cats would be safer.
Not only has one of my cats turned up missing, haven't been seen since Thurs 10-07-2004, I lost my favorite cat, Joey, to kidney failure last Dec 2003 & my oldest cat, Spunky, died July 31, 2002. At least I know what happened to Joey & Spunky. Unfortunately I have had prior experience with cats seeming to vanish into thin air.
In July of 1993, a week after the 4th when all was quiet, 2 of my cats disappeared
after 5PM on the same evening never to be seen again. 5 days after that my next door neighbors cat vanished without a trace. In the early 1980's another next door neighbor's cat turned up missing. That was poisitive that that cat was somehow taken. But the question was, how? Her cat never wondered out of the yard was not keen on strangers.
Anyway with this latest missing cat I'm doing the usual thing putting up fliers visiting the animal shelter & talking to neighbors. I know that Mia was great for getting into places because she would come home with cobwebs stuck to her face almost all the time. She could very well be locked up somewhere, but with the track record of this neighborhood & each passing day, it points more & more to somebody trapping her & doing what ever. Since I can't prove anything & I can only suspect, I feel helpless.
However, I've decided that if Mia doesn't turn up, I'm going to replace the fliers about her disappearence with a flier about cats dissappearing into thin air & ask anyone who has had similar experience & live in this neighborhood to contact me to share their thoughts on this. I truly believe that at least one or more individuals is respossible for the dissappearence of these cats. Hopefully if I can raise awareness we can catch this person. I'm scared to death to go to work or let the cats out for fear of loosing another cat.
My sincere condolances go out everyone who has lost their pets one way or another. I can not read these posts without crying, so I don't know how often I will be able to visit this site.
Bless all of you,
Sheri

[LittleGirl's...]

Sheri,

I'm so saddened to hear of Mia's absence. Almost a week.... I can understand your feelings of helplessness.

When I had outdoor cats, I had one who would disappear for many days at a time, once for 25 days, and then return. But it was her habit to wander a lot. Another time I had a cat who was gone for 7 weeks!!! She returned home weighing 2 1/2 pounds (down from 12) and never again set foot off the porch steps. The weekend she disppeared was a holiday weekend, and the weekend she returned was some holiday as well. I suspected she may have been closed up in some camp or something---some place that was opened only on long weekends.

I pray that your Mia returns. IF she doesn't, please know that she will be with Joey and Spunky---all of them in bliss, and when it's your time you'll be reunited.

But if it comes to that, rest assured that we will be there with you, in spirit, every step of the way. And in the meantime, I'm sending intense prayers your way.

Looking forward to hearing from you again. Try to take care of yourself. I know this is tough beyond words!!

Love,

Kathy