My cat has been missing for more than 8 weeks now.
Anybody know how many cats come back after this time ?

(16-09-2011 01:02 PM)audiboy Wrote:  My cat has been missing for more than 8 weeks now.
Anybody know how many cats come back after this time ?

some cats have come back years after the owners had unfortunately believed them to have had a road accident or sudden illness-have read articles on this exact topic in the cats protection mag; the cat before.

our first cat;twinkle went missing for months in the early nineties-we found out by a fluke that she was across the main road at the end of our road-someone had taken her in thinking she was stray.

hopefully he/she is still around as that is more likely than having had a accident/sudden illness in own view, he/she is probably still mousing,being pampered by someone.
often people will take them in thinking they are stray even if they dont look stray.
so the best hope is that she/he? is still around and its just a question of finding the right person.
-have ads been put up in local shops? supermarkets? the ads board at pets at home?

here are some nice stories of cats turning up:
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44527433/n...uzQq3rlF0g
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/878875-cat-m...nt-it-back
^sorry that one isnt as nice as his stupid owner doesnt want more cats but it had been in a newspaper so am betting even though its an older cat someone who cares will have homed him.
http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2011/01/cat...or-11.html
-see,never give up hope.

cat lovers and otherwise caring people need to think carefuly before taking in cats and assuming theyre stray as the new place will become their routine and be hard to break out of if their old owner turns up.
one of mine-a beautiful tortie girl called lottie; only shy of two years old was recently taken by a hit and run because a neighbour opposite our farm had gotten her into a habit of coming into theirs as they assumed she was stray and she was crossing the road to go into theirs when this...prat was speeding.