My cats has not come home, help please.

Kemik · 30 May 2011 at 10:28

Without wanting to turn this in to a cat v dog thread, next time buy a dog. They won't just run off and will want to remain as part of the family rather than go roaming.

998cc · 30 May 2011 at 10:30

Got any chinese neighbours who could have turned her into soup?

JohnTedd · 30 May 2011 at 10:32

B&W said:
11 months and never been out wow thats just mad/cruel. ... natural habitat is outside, let this be a lesson to you.

The previous owners may have been cruel keeping the cat indoors (but you don't know their circumstances), but clearly the OPs intention was to allow her outdoors no doubt after the visit to the vets tomorrow to get her chipped!

CaptainRAVE · 30 May 2011 at 10:33

To add to the above comments, one of my cats didn't return home one evening - he then appeared again after a few days. We think he actually got shut in a garage without a neighbour realising.

Some really harsh comments here though and you can't help but laugh at how perfect some members think they are.

Whappers · 30 May 2011 at 10:35

I had one run away on me that was just 8 months old. I'd only had her about 6 months in total. I was devastated at the time and know what it feels like. I ended up getting two ginger tabbies 3-4 months later and they were much nicer than the cat I lost, sad to say but true. They didn't scratch the arms and wrists off me and were just more social all round. All three were rescue cats but I'm guessing the one I lost had a slightly harder life than most given how aggressive she was...

Anyway, fingers crossed your cat comes back!

Fenris · 30 May 2011 at 10:36

CaptainRAVE said:
Some really harsh comments here though and you can't help but laugh at how perfect some members think they are.

To be fair he's had it a week, it's hardly part of the family is it.

Maccy · 30 May 2011 at 11:16

Fenris said:
To be fair he's had it a week, it's hardly part of the family is it.

True, but some of the comments don't exactly add anything constructive to the thread do they? Also known as trolling...

Redz · 30 May 2011 at 11:26

Have you asked the previous owner to keep an eye out for it? That may be where it returns to.

vicisthebest · 30 May 2011 at 11:32

Where did you get her from? If it's another home (as opposed to a rescue centre) then have you asked round there? She might have found her way back there. Might be unlikely though if she was a house cat there too, she might not know what to look/smell for when outside.

Sgt Tackleberry · 30 May 2011 at 11:40

Redz said:
Have you asked the previous owner to keep an eye out for it? That may be where it returns to.

The last owner lives about 2miles away from me, I have asked them to keep eye out just in case she does show up.

Just found out were our cat is a ginger female she is worth a lot of money as ginger females are rare to get, don't know if that is true!.

vicisthebest · 30 May 2011 at 12:07

Depends. I get told ginger girls are rare but I have one. My mum has one. My auntie had one.

Unless she's a breed I don't think anyone is going to steal her for that reason. They are rarer than ginger boys, but that doesn't make them any more expensive.

Sgt Tackleberry · 1 Jun 2011 at 09:07

hi guy's and girl's,

Got good news. My little girl woke me this morning saying she can here a cat outside, I told her to go back to bed
as it's probley a dream as it was 5am, Then i started to here the cat myself so i ran down the stairs went to the
conservatory doors to see my cat outside

..

My little girl is very happy now as she has got her tigger back now and since then she has been awake with her.

Thanks guys for your info as well, i went round the streets trying to find her and shouting her name out as well, i
did get some strange looks as well and i can take down the posters as well.

Thank you.

K1LLSW1TCH · 1 Jun 2011 at 09:09

Sgt Tackleberry said:
hi guy's and girl's,

Got good news. My little girl woke me this morning saying she can here a cat outside, I told her to go back to bed
as it's probley a dream as it was 5am, Then i started to here the cat myself so i ran down the stairs went to the
conservatory doors to see my cat outside ..

My little girl is very happy now as she has got her tigger back now and since then she has been awake with her.

Thanks guys for your info as well, i went round the streets trying to find her and shouting her name out as well, i
did get some strange looks as well and i can take down the posters as well.

Thank you.

Awwwwwh.

Marky · 1 Jun 2011 at 09:11

C.P said:
Got any chinese neighbours who could have turned her into soup?

Aww duude

Sgt Tackleberry said:
hi guy's and girl's,

Got good news. My little girl woke me this morning saying she can here a cat outside, I told her to go back to bed
as it's probley a dream as it was 5am, Then i started to here the cat myself so i ran down the stairs went to the
conservatory doors to see my cat outside ..

My little girl is very happy now as she has got her tigger back now and since then she has been awake with her.

Thanks guys for your info as well, i went round the streets trying to find her and shouting her name out as well, i
did get some strange looks as well and i can take down the posters as well.

Thank you.

You might as well know... I'm very happy for you, as well.

Vonhelmet · 1 Jun 2011 at 09:11

All's well that ends well. You're lucky she came back.

Good news.

iamtheoneneo · 1 Jun 2011 at 09:12

whilst you have my sympathy and glad it worked out ok and that what im about to say isnt linked to you. but anyone that keeps a cat indoors its whole life should be done for animal cruelty

to be honest id of expected that cat to never come back or to of thrown itself under the first car it saw out of sheer boredom.

so now this has happened perhaps you should let it out once in a while?

Sgt Tackleberry · 1 Jun 2011 at 09:12

i do have chinese take aways in my area but like i said she is back.

CaptainRAVE · 1 Jun 2011 at 09:13

Sgt Tackleberry said:
hi guy's and girl's,

Got good news. My little girl woke me this morning saying she can here a cat outside, I told her to go back to bed
as it's probley a dream as it was 5am, Then i started to here the cat myself so i ran down the stairs went to the
conservatory doors to see my cat outside ..

My little girl is very happy now as she has got her tigger back now and since then she has been awake with her.

Thanks guys for your info as well, i went round the streets trying to find her and shouting her name out as well, i
did get some strange looks as well and i can take down the posters as well.

Thank you.

Excellent news!

Very lucky on this occasion.

Sgt Tackleberry · 1 Jun 2011 at 09:13

iamtheoneneo said:
whilst you have my sympathy and that what im about to say isnt linked to you. but anyone that keeps a cat indoors its whole life should be done for animal cruelty

and to be honest id expect that cat to never come back or to of thrown itself under the first car it saw out of sheer boredom.

So ture i know, i have to ring up the vets 2day and get her booked in again for her to be chipped.

LOAM · 1 Jun 2011 at 09:16

You need to keep her in now for several weeks, so she can get used to where she lives. When we got ours the vets and cat protection said up to 4 months before letting them out. You're very lucky she came back after such a short time owning her.