grace
It is two weeks now and Lolly has not returned This is the first time that Lolly has stayed away for so long. We have had cats before who did that and one had returned after 3 years.
This is the last photo I clicked of Lolly. He is waiting for my return to the computer. He always gave me company wherever – in the garden, in the kitchen, watching tv………….
I miss Lolly. Hope he will not do what our other pets did. Lolly loved his siblings and was good to them.
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Have you had your cats leaving like this?
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I’m sorry this happened. But I think Lolly will definitely be back. My cats also disappeared and then returned.
I hope he will get his food but these days it is difficult to get fish
Cats are very resourceful. I suppose she’ll get some food.
You are right there. They look healthy even after staying away from home.
I believe he will be back. I watched a neighbor’s cat running away regularly. We all said cat fugitive. When he got tired he was coming back.
I am hoping he will. I am just waiting.
Oh, this reminds me. This will be hard to believe, but it really happened to a cat of mine. We had some friends of my mom and dad come visit for a few days, and they had brought their motorhome. They lived 1700 miles away in Texas. I live in California. There is a whole lot of desert between here and there. They left, and we got a call the next night. They were 1000 miles away and had stopped to refuel and look for a place to park to stay the night, when out from under the RV, our white persian cat ran out and ran away through a fence into a field in the dark of night. They called and called, and decided to stay there for the night, and left food and water out. The next day no cat, so they stayed an extra day at the gas station. Still no cat. So the went home, and called us saying how sorry they were. 1 year and a month went by and we get a call from the neighbor saying that our white cat was under her house and meowing loud. We went down and got her. All of her nails were gone, the pads of her feet were raw. She was mostly grey, and matted. She was screaming still, meowing wildly. We took her to the vet and she had two broken legs and broken pelvic bone. She made it 1000 miles through the desert, in winter and summer. She lived to be 14 years old. Her name was Lori.
I got choked reading this. Getting back that many miles is a feat that could win an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records!!! Our earlier Lolly had stayed away for 3 years but Preiti our dog did not welcome him back although they were friends earlier.
Lolly is not neutered. But I have hopes he will get back.
They made a movie after I had had kids, called Homeward bound. Same story basically, of course in the movie they traveled twice as far and it was a dog and a cat.
If you can send me a link, I would love to watch that movie.
I found one on youtube, You can buy or rent it. I cannto find a free version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxVX6x0phB8
If he’s not neutered, he will start to stray to find a suitable mate. He looks like he is about that age. My cats have a fenced in yard they cannot get out of. We have a coyote problem here.
We too have a strong compound wall but our cats are like monkeys they can climb any height (lol)
I was having problems as well with one of mine. Shes an escape artist. I finally put chicken wire on top of the fence. Its too flimsy for them to climb, seems to be doing the trick but it looks bad. Not a very good look.
Our pets always get back and most of the time they are around. Lolly did it perhaps he wanted to escape from that guy (lol)
He will come back. They always do unless something not good happens to them.
I hope he does. He is the mildest and the most loving cat around.