My cat has gone missing - HE'S HOME - PICS ON PAGE 3

ailuro2

Look on the bright side, you've a bridle path behind you instead of houses, so that's a whole lot less houses he could be in.

Go door to door, post notices through ALL letterboxes, let the kids know there will be a reward, but don't tell them how much. (Kids get everywhere, they are your allies here, not good to be calling them scummy when they might be Charlie's rescuers)

If the council haven't found him he's not been run over, so that's more good news.

Go round last thing at night with an open tin of his favourite cat food, shout his name and listen carefully.

The woman from the RSPCA is right about old grannies adopting cats, they assume they are lost and 'save' them, that should not be dismissed, make usre you let people know he is slimly built because he's pedigree, not because he's not well looked after.

Apricot

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1255625/Cat-survives-weeks-eating-frozen-peas-chilled-warehouse.html

This story was posted on another thread, it shows how durable cats can be. The survival instinct is an amazing thing.

BitterAndTwisted

ailuro2 wrote: »

Go door to door, post notices through ALL letterboxes, let the kids know there will be a reward, but don't tell them how much. (Kids get everywhere, they are your allies here, not good to be calling them scummy when they might be Charlie's rescuers)

Chatting to the kids in the street was precisely how I got my darling returned to me after having been missing for nearly six months. Some neighbours just down the street thought she was a stray and had taken her in. I have no idea how they'd missed my posters up in the street but they had. What I really should have done was to leaflet every, single property. If I had, I'd most probably have got her back a lot sooner.

paddypaws101

I wont bore you all by repeating my story about Murphy....but he spent 6 WEEKS under the floor boards of a house just nearly opposite mine. Cats can survive on even tiny drops of condensation for water, the odd spider or mouse for food.
Knock on doors, keep talking to neighbours and even those kids and do not lose hope.

MrsE_2

I have asked all the local kids (& not let them know I think they are scummy - but they are - the first thing they said was "how much is the reward").

I'm thinking of putting him in the local papers, in case he has been stolen & sold on.

I have a poster in every street hereabouts & two or three on the local ones, I have knocked on every door hereabouts too, well over 100.

I'm hoping he has been stolen, because I would hate to think he's lost, hurt or hungry.

MrsE_2

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

Have you knocked on every neighbour's door and asked them to check sheds and garages while you wait? Anyone gone away on holiday recently?

Everyone in this street, the one in front & the one behind.
They always went to the bottom of the garden & the bridal path. There is a small stream between the bridal path & the other houses behind, so its unlikely he's gone that way, which only leaves down the bridal path, past a few houses - not many about 6-8 & straight into open fields. But we have searched the ditches, the stream, the fields, even the hollows in the trees.

rubytuesday

Sorry to hear about Charlie hope he returns home soon!

MrsE_2

Can you believe it, hes home:j:j:j:j

5.30 am this morning he just turned up at the back door.

He's clean, seems hungry (but not starving), no idea where he's been.

He's even mee-owing a little:eek:

Put some spot-on on his neck & cleaned his face up (his eyes needed cleaning because they hadn't been done).

Will be getting a chip in his ASAP:T:T:T:T

BEST MOTHERS DAY PREZZIE EVER:D:D:D:D

lelasuzi

I am so happy for you. Have been reading and hoping. Happy Mothers Day!

geri1965_2

Great news!