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Post by sparkysunny on Nov 4, 2013 20:26:37 GMT
I think I may have posted about Basil before, but not for a while, so, as it's on my mind again now, I'd like to ask what people think about why it is that cats just seem to go missing. We had three brothers (from a litter of five) and Basil just disappeared one day, without any 'warning'. He was chipped, I'm on a local mums' email forum (we all look out for each other) and I'm a teacher in our local school; the head teacher very kindly allowed me to send fliers home with all the children about Basil's disappearance. Nothing. Any ideas? We have cats on the livery yard where we keep our ponies who just appear from nowhere; I'm so hoping Basil has done something similar, but who knows? It's been five years now and, whilst he's chipped, if he's turned up somewhere but not needed medical attention, who's to know? My in-laws 'adopted' a stray which turned out to have disappeared from its home a year or so before but the owner had failed to trace it. When my in-laws 'caught' it and took it to the vet to discover its history, the owner said he no longer wanted it, so Tom was rehomed with my in-laws. He has since moved out, much to the distress of my in-laws, but, no doubt, he is still in the vicinity, even though they haven't seen him for weeks. I'm not sure exactly what I'm trying to say in this post, other than that, if anyone manages to 'catch' a 'feral' cat, please, please take it to a vet to see if it's micro-chipped. Maybe Basil will come home one day...
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Post by roseview on Nov 5, 2013 17:32:34 GMT
There can be any number of reasons. Quite often they get into a vehicle, such as a delivery truck and then jump out miles away from home. I'm a bit involved in our area with cat rescue and follow several of the local groups, lost and found pages and it is amazing where/how they can turn up. There was one cat that had been missing for a year, it was then reported as a stray to a local rescue, I saw the photo, recognised the distinctive ginger tail tip and alerted the owner. The cat was about 5 miles from home. Another cat was known to like vehicles and went missing from the end of Cornwall, believed to have stowed away in a delivery truck. A few weeks later somebody reported a cat that had recently appeared in their stable yard, about 30 miles away and it was the missing cat. Then there are the brainless people who think nothing of picking up cats and driving them a long way from home and turning them going, just for the hell of it!! We had one coming into our stables. He never stayed long enough to be caught until we set traps so that we could neuter all our ferals. He got caught, taken to the vets and speyed, he had clearly been a pet. The CPL guy turned him going when he brought the others back. Eventually, I was told that the cat, a straying Tom who had been missing for a year, went home having lost his hormone levels and when his owners took him to the vets (ours) they recognised him (huge ginger)as being the one we'd caught.
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Post by snooperdooper on Feb 16, 2014 1:34:10 GMT
We're lucky with ours! We have 7 altogether, most are rescues. 3 from RSPCA, 2 from a lady who we used to be on a yard with and 2 who came from the same place a year apart but second (younger one) came as his mum got hit by a car when he was 3 weeks old. Luckily none of ours ever go too far from home and are usually found somewhere in the house asleep a couple of ours used to stray out and be gone for days, sometimes weeks but still they've come back. We've had 2 in the past that have gone and never returned and I do wonder where they've for to.. We think 1 may have tried to go back to his original home but never found him unfortunately.. The other went and god knows where she's gone!
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