My kitty has been AWOL for five days!

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I miss that bastards, and I hope he wasn't eaten by a coyote or hit by a car or something. He's usually only gone for a couple of days at a time; this is a new record for him.

All the usual methods of persuading a cat inside have not worked--I have called and called and called him repeatedly, I have put cat food out on the front porch (only to have it eaten by racoons; the bastards), and I have put up signs.

What do I do, oh what do I do? He's the most lovable kitty in the world; he's beige and lazy and friendly and really, really fat.

― Ian Johnson (elmo oxygen), Thursday, 7 August 2003 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Check out every possible hiding place, even spots where you think 'there's no fucking way he could be in *there*'

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 7 August 2003 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Do the signs have photographs? Have you called the pound? (They do their best to be helpful.) I hope you find him :/

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 7 August 2003 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

The signs do have photographs, but I have not yet called the pound.. the most obvious thing, and I forgot about it. Thanks for your help, folks.

― Ian Johnson (elmo oxygen), Thursday, 7 August 2003 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

That sucks. Recently, someone I know put up posters for his missing cat, and he actually got a ransom call!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 7 August 2003 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Poor lost kitty. :-( Find him soon!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 August 2003 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Haven't called the pound??? Have you tried saying "Here, kitty kitty kitty?"

Find that kitty-cat dammit!

― jewelly (jewelly), Thursday, 7 August 2003 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

S1utsky: did he hold the cat up to the phone and say, "Recognize that 'meeeeow'?"

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 7 August 2003 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

(Incidentally, my favorite book:

http://www.audiobooksonline.com/shopsite/media/0786196122_M.jpg)

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 7 August 2003 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

dammit. i hope you find your kitty.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 7 August 2003 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Every time our cats have gone missing they turned out to be REALLY nearby (like, under the apartment building). We always spend two days combing the neighborhood and then they show up again. I'm sure he'll turn up. I know what hell that is when the cat disappears.

My mom's cat just disappeared for a year and a half, then showed up again on the driveway.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, 7 August 2003 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Amateurist: actually, he said "I have your cat. Give me $1000."

That is a great book cover. I've never read Wodehouse before.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 7 August 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Do it do it do it do it do it now.

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 7 August 2003 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

By the way, I was walking downtown for lunch today and passed a cat who meowed at us.... It was like the perfect platonic Meow, it didn't have that slightly strangulated quality that some cats' meows have, it wasn't too trebly.... It was just purrr-fect. I wanted to congratulate the cat but it scurried into someone's backyard.

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 7 August 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

What should I read? Should I read that one?

(Sorry to derail your thread, Ian. As a paranoid cat-owner in a neighbourhood where there have been quite a few incidents of animal murder, I genuinely hope you find yours. My cat once went missing for a couple of days, but she came back, a little scruffier and a little more "alley," but she's fine now.)

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 7 August 2003 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Note to cat lovers: never, ever see the film Satantango.

S1utsky: yeah, sure, start with that one or maybe Carry On, Jeeves.

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 7 August 2003 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Ian, hope you find you cat. You may also want to try looking into any no-kill shelter's in you area. Majority of cats end up in these places.

― danielle g. (danielle g.), Friday, 8 August 2003 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone has shut him in their garage, possibly deliberately.

― Alex in Rotherham (Alex in Doncaster), Friday, 8 August 2003 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

You should definitely put those missing cat posters in the local pounds, vets, and pet stores. ONe of our cats went missing for a week after a tornado and then someone called several neighborhoods away saying they found her. Does your kitty have an id tag with your phone number on it? Is it a female kitty? If so, she could have run off to have kittens??

― SArah McLUsky (coco), Friday, 8 August 2003 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

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