Think someone may have my cat

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Over the last couple of months she has been going missing for 2-3 days on end and when she finally comes home she isn't hungry at all, so obviously she is getting food/fed somewhere else.

Now she hasn't been back for 6 days now and i'm getting a little worried, we live near a lot of old people so there's a chance she may be in one of their houses and can't get out.

She has a collar with a tag which has our phone number on so I don't understand why someone would keep her locked in. She has been chipped too so if something had happened to her we would have got a call.

What can I do apart from going around asking my neighbours?
 
Activte the GPS homing beacon that you had implanted at the same time as the ID chip and follow the trail ;)

Alternatively... not a lot tbh
Checked local vets/pounds?

Sucks mate but just round knocking on the doors asking if anyone has seen yer kitty.
 
Prepare yourself for the worst, she may well have been killed and the fact she is chipped doesn't mean you would have been called. Most road kill is just shovelled quietly into a hole and if a cat is injured it will crawl off somewhere quiet and hidden to die. The fact she goes missing for days and doesn't come back hungry does not mean someone else is feeding her, cats are capable of feeding themselves!
 
Put up missing cat posters. We had a cat that went missing, I assumed the worst like alex2001 has said but my sisters put up a load of posters round the village. It took a while, but after a while we got a call from a gamekeeper saying he said he'd seen our cat in the woods and a few weeks later someone phoned saying the cat was by the railway tracks now - we went down there and managed to catch her. Sadly she only stuck around for a couple of weeks though, she didn't get on with our other cat or else got the call of the wild :(
 
Get a plain white collar for the cat and write on it in marker pen "Please do not feed me" and if there is space "I already have a caring home"

Hopefully then if your cat is in the process of being adopted by someone else, they might think twice.
 
put a collar on the cat if there isn't one already and then stick a note saying do not feed this cat. we had a problem lady down the road kept feeding our cat milk which give him the squirts. the note solved the issue

edit: too slow
 
Six days is a long time. Put a few posters up, knock on a few doors. If she's going somewhere it won't be very far away and you must do the note collar.
 
pcoltrane said:
Get a plain white collar for the cat and write on it in marker pen "Please do not feed me" and if there is space "I already have a caring home"

Hopefully then if your cat is in the process of being adopted by someone else, they might think twice.
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Closing the stable door........

OP was asking what to do now, I think. Flyers are fairly cheap to print off and only need a bit of your time to go around your local area posting them through letter boxes.

Perhaps a slot in your local papers announcements might help.

Aside from that your options are somewhat limited.
 
Don't lose all hope, 6 days is a long time but I've known cats go missing for longer than that and waltz in like nothing happened and demand feeding.
Like someone esle said, put up posters with your contact details, you may get lucky.
 
-BA- said:
Closing the stable door........

OP was asking what to do now, I think. Flyers are fairly cheap to print off and only need a bit of your time to go around your local area posting them through letter boxes.

Perhaps a slot in your local papers announcements might help.

Aside from that your options are somewhat limited.
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Oops missed the bit where the cat hasn't come back for 6 days :(

Agree with the flyers/posters (over a large area too - you'd be suprised how far cats travel)
If he comes back - try the collar thing!
 
Our cat was "catnapped" a little while ago.
We would let him out in the morning and he'd wander off to a house over the road.
Apparently he'd then wait outside with their dogs and then they would let him in and feed him and let him sleep in his "favourite spot" - just under one of their radiators.

This was happening very regularly and he would go missing for a day or two at any one time.
In the end we had to be straight, went over to the people one evening to collect our cat from their front room and asked them not to let him in any more.

They actually moaned and said that our cat enjoyed playing with their cat and he loved his "favourite spot".
We pressed on the point - please don't let him in and definitely don't feed him.

I'm pretty convinced he does still make the odd appearance over the road, however he is always about in the evening wanting to come in, so they no longer catnap him for long periods of time.
When you cat does eventually come home, follow him the next time he goes out and see where he is heading - its likely he's got a second home rather than homes.
 
On a serious note our cat went missing for 5 days once. Turned out he got shut in somebody's garden shed.
 
my cat has been missing on and off for 3 months. someone in the next street has obviously stolen him. comes back fat . looks at his bowl in disgust then disappears for a few weeks . wish i knew who it was so i could ask them WTF they are doing
 
"andy" said:
my cat has been missing on and off for 3 months. someone in the next street has obviously stolen him. comes back fat . looks at his bowl in disgust then disappears for a few weeks . wish i knew who it was so i could ask them WTF they are doing
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Obviously giving him a more diserable home than you are?
 
our old cat sammy went missing for 1 month every year
1st year we thought he had been killed, after searching the fields and roads by mum and dads house we all decided he was gone forever.
then on day mums pegging out washing in the garden, and who rolls up, sam the cat, fat as hell, and i mean fat.
this happened every year from the age of 2 right upto his last years which was 10 i think.
where did he go, baby rabbit catching in the feilds.
1 month every year we would see him, then he will turn up fat as a fat cat.
dont write your cat off just yet
 
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