8 month old male cat disappeared 14 hours ago. Other 3 cats crying and patrolling.

Maybe a neighbor took it in. I won’t hesitate to open a door for a cold furry creature.

hmm, i saw a kitten less than a year old come home all worse for ware. It was being stopped by some neighbor cat that did not want it on its territory. So i intervened and let it get back home.

Also dont forget to check up trees. cats will run up trees if in danger and get stuck up there.

If you want your cats to live a long life, don't let them outside.

May have been an owl if you live in such an area. I'm in a relatively large city and have owls and hawks all around my part of town. Lost kittens to them several years ago.

Coyotes snatch up pet cats as well. My friend lost two cats to coyotes. He lives in the suburbs of a big city

Keep checking the door periodically, could be sitting on your doorstep right now, or at 2 am in the morning, waiting, waiting.

If he wasn’t fixed, he may be out looking for love.

Check neighbors garages. The cats go in when doors are open. Neighbor doesn't know cats inside.

I hope you find your fur baby. :( Keep us posted and leave tuna out. He'll come back.

I've always let my cats go in and out, in both the city and out here in the country. My cats have died at ages 22, 23, 19, 20, and my 19 year old is still going strong. I had one cat die at age 7 from cancer. Keeping them indoors makes them crazy and is a miserable existence. I would rather die at age 1 than live confined.

Cat finally showed back up. Other cats were hissing and shit. Seemed to be in okay condition. Ate and wanted affection then slept.

Letting your cats outside is a good way to get them killed... I know so many people whose outdoor cats were hit by a car, attacked, etc.

Last Edited by Gabriel~ on 12/29/2018 03:48 AM

My first thought about it.

Anyone who wants their kitties to live long, healthy, happy lives needs to keep them in.

Fantastic.

they can go as far as 20 miles from home, plus get into fights with other males, and at risk for feline viral diseases if bitten

My cat lived with me at my old house until I moved to new house kept her in for 3 months , let her out little at a time, but one day she disappeared

I checked my Old house nothing she had gone !!

12 months later she reappeared at old house

I took out some cat insurance to be on the safe side like anyone would ,

In between taking the insurance (insured for injury)
And capturing the cat was 3 months

Finaly after capturing the cat and taking cat to vets because of injury (the collor got wrapped round her front paw and rubbed most of the skin off round her leg and infection) it was touch and go weather she would lose the leg or not,

After surgery antibiotics they saved her front leg

The insurance company refused to pay out the £600 fee $761.90 saying it was a ongoing injury and not a accident for which am covered
Even the vet said it was a accident but still left to find the money to pay the Bill The insurance refused the vets statement

Moral of story keep hope mine came back after 12 months,
And make sure you have good insurance and not with PDSA insurance

Last Edited by the Seer on 12/29/2018 04:58 AM

And if male, get them fixed. A female in heat a mile or two away will make them leave home and go to it.

Let your cats outside only if you want them to die or disappear.

Yep, worth checking, we had a cat chased up a tree by a coyote, had to climb and rescue it, only problem was it shit itself, so had to climb down the tree with a shit covered cat in my grasp...Oh the fun!

nice. wtg Congrats.

i let my cat out on the first day of moving house, and even at night on like the 2nd day. She settled in practically instantly.

Also check under the hood of your car(s)...cats will often go there for warmth.

^^^^ THIS

At eight months, 'tis the season.

That's great, OP. Best possible ending to this story.

The little guy had an adventure. Cats need those, too, just like people. Cats at that age are especially prone to adventure.

My baby fur girl had lots of adventures for 13+ years, but she always came home (and now she's gone to her real forever home).

Give your fur babies love and their freedom as well as food and a roof over their heads. They need love and freedom as much as they need food and a roof. If they know they're loved, they'll always come back, one way or another.

Maybe. But keeping cats locked in a house their entire lives is inhumane torture. It’s worse than Seaworld trapping an Orca in a small swimming pool. It’s fucked up and if you have an indoor cat that makes you a selfish asshole in my book.

Plus indoor cats live a sickly life. They are fat and institutionalized. If you’re going to keep an indoor cat then you should not get a cat.

I’ve had cats for 40 years. All indoor/outdoor cats.

They are deeply happy and content animals. Far and away superior to indoor cats who are unhealthy, unhappy prisoners.

Yes in/outdoor cats get in fights and from time to time get whacked on the road. But it is far far better for a cat to live one month outdoors and get killed than to live 18 years inside. Indoor cats are tortured.

He’s fixed.

I've always been fascinated by the behavior of cats born in and/or raised within a human's domicile towards the great outdoors. Some have no interest whatsoever in exploring beyond their keeper's keep while others will insist upon sneaking out when they feel so inclined.

Of the seven cats in my home, four of them were born here. One of those four, the smallest and most timid, spent almost the entire winter last year outside. I had even scratched her off the proverbial scratching post when the brief sightings tapered off to nil, but she showed up one day in the driveway, ready and willing to come back inside, and hasn't gone back out since. Her daddy, also born here, manages to get out every now and then, but very seldom.

One of the other three that weren't born here was abandoned by being thrown out of a car window at about 7-8 weeks old, scooped up from the ditch by a good Samaritan travelling close behind who saw her ejected from the moving vehicle, and then brought to where we found and adopted her. She seldom goes more than a couple of months in between hiatuses of exploring outdoors for several days at a time. It seems like she stalks for an opportunity to sneak outside, but she always mews loudly as she runs past after one's opened the door, as if to say 'bye!' or 'i'll be back!' or some similar parting expression.

That’s crazy. Where the hell do they go. LOL.