I know how heartbreaking it is when a pet goes missing. All sorts of things go through your mind as to what could have happened to it.

My cat, Marmie, went missing in October 2006.

Don’t give up hope of finding Trent, you never know – you might find him again. I hope you do.
He looks just like my cat Marmie.

I read of one cat who was rewunited with his owner after 16 years! I couldn’t believe it. Apparently, it was only TWO street away from his owners home.

Comment to Jane (no 36 comment) who says (quote)
some sicko out there in the community takes great pleasure in killing and skinning our beloved cats.
We had a case of that happening where I live in the UK, but these sickos were not only torturing the cats but cutting them up and leaving the bodies strewn around. I felt sick to the stomach. I had lost a beautiful ginger kitten around that time. They were taken to court and got 2 years in prison. On their appeal, the judge must have been a cat lover because instead of letting them off or have a shorter sentence they ended up with 4 years!
At least, I felt there was a little justice for the cats.

Warmly
Janne

Blessings

Don’t give up hope, you never know!

Regards.

Jacquie Austin.

You should join the “Missing Cat Assistance Group” on Yahoo. A week isn’t really a long time for a cat to be gone. If he got scared they can go into “feral mode” for 21 days or more. People give up way too soon in looking for their lost pets.

Our black kitty, Chloe, disappeared on October 1, 2004. We put up posters, hired a pet detective (he said someone picked her up and has her), talked to animal communicators, etc… We didn’t see our Chloe Critter until October 3, 2006! Someone has her and calls her “Shadow.” My boyfriend said if the people are taking care of her and she is loved…we shouldn’t force her to come home, because when she left we had her and 2 other kitties. Well, while searching for her, we started rescuing kitties at a local soccer park and fixing them, etc. We have 12 kitties now! Chloe wouldn’t be happy here. We also put up cat-fencing on our little 110 sq ft patio of our townhouse. I have 8 kitties in the garage are part of 12 I rescued last August/September (4 were adopted) and we need to get some of them adopted..or we will end up with 20 and no room for all of them! Supposed to be doing TNR, but if they are tame, we fix them using our own money (and I don’t even have a job now) and adopt them or keep them.

Anyway, I would join the Missing Cat Assistance group. Here’s one link to it. http://groups.yahoo.com/phrase/questionnaire-template.

Oh, also you should put out food and water. You might have to trap him to get him back inside and coyotes don’t eat cats as much as people think. We had a lady (Lana) that was in the group and her cat, Kitters, escaped from her truck in the middle of the Mojave Desert in September 2007. The cat was missing for 26 days in the desert and there were coyote dens everywhere. Turns out Kitters was hiding out in a 25-ft long tunnel in an outcropping of rocks. Lana hired a pet detective who came from Oklahoma to Arizona and she told her her cat had been killed by coyotes. There was no blood, no collar, nothing. This was a famous pet detective who had been on TV. We told Lana not to believe her. Lana kept looking and a cowboy in Kingman, AZ called and told her he just saw Kitters out on the rocks watching the traffic go by on Highway 395 (think it’s that highway). Lana finally found her and the vet said she wouldn’t have lasted 2 more days. Even though Lana was leaving food, Kitters wasn’t eating too much.

Oh, and here’s a link to Kat Albrecht’s “Missing Pet Partnership” website. She is the cream of the crop in knowing about Missing pets. Heck, we had a lady dress up in a cat suit in New Zealand for two weeks and hold a missing cat sign during the rush hour. Her cat “Darwin” had been missing 6 months. She finally got a lead from someone who saw the sign and got him back.

Keep strong and join Missing Cat Assistance. They can point you in the right direction in what to do. I bet Trent is out there! Good Luck and keep looking!

Tamara in California.

Our vet had a vet-in-training – a WONDERFUL man, Dr. Ertz who now is somewhere in Oregon. He taught me how to retrain him AND told me this was happening BECAUSE I let him out. He said that when you do that they will take the entire yard to be their turf and when they are inside and see another animal on their turf and cannot run them off, they will resort to marking and anxious behavior as they try to police the perimeters of their existance indoors. So for a month I had to keep him in a cage, releasing him for only alloted periods of time in a supervised situation, increasing that daily and NO MORE OUT.
It worked! No more ovaban or anything else to try.
Too bad I learned this AFTER he had lymes disease that temporarily paralyzed him and left him severely arthritic at the young age of about 11.
Dr. Ertz again pointed out that even on my porch, and close to the house, a dog could have walked by and dropped a tick, so that was not wise.
Since then, all are indoors and surprisingly, even the strays I’d taken in that were upto 3yrs of age of living outside have made no attempt to try to escape. They know where they have it good!

All my cats have been a joy and a blessing. I can
see little TRENT is as well. I pray he had a merciful end if that is indeed what happened and if not that he will be home and indoors for good very soon. He looks like such a sweet fellow. My heart goes out to you all. For as many animals that there are in the world, there is no replacing them in the heart. Each is distinctively unique, like people, and each touches our lives in a special way. I’m truly sorry for your loss.

Nicky

I took him straight to the veterinary clinic when I got him when he was 7 weeks old before I took him home, to get him vaccinated.

The veterinary assistant told me that they didn’t vaccinate kittens till they were 8 weeks old. I told her that I had just gotten him and couldn’t take him home unless he was vaccinated because I had cats that had died from panleukopenia. They had caught it from stray cats that were diseased. Someone gave me a kitten after that and I named her Gloria, but in a couple days she got sick and died.

So the veterinary assistant explained this to the veterinarian and then she said, he’d make an exception in lieu of the circumstances.

When I had those cats that were sick, I called the veterinary clinic and said they were all sick and that I didn’t have a lot of money. The man said to bring the cats in.

It was after hours and this guy walked to the clinic in bitter cold and took the cats’ temperatures and vaccinated them and then didn’t charge a penny, just said to give him a ride home and not to tell anybody and to consider it a Christmas present. He said the cats had a temperature and were very sick and that nature would take its course, (meaning they would die.)

Another time I took a cat in to get her neutered. The assistant checked the cat and asked me if it was neutered before. I said, “No”. Then the vet came in and she said, “This cat looks like it was already neutered, but she says it wasn’t” Then the veterinarian examined the cat and said, “This cat is a female.” and that it had to be spayed,not neutered. I felt so dumb.

Roberta