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Cat gone AWOL

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,753 ✭✭✭Vito Corleone


    We had a cat who lived to around 14. Beautiful long haired cat, he was like a dark majestic lion. He went missing for about a month before and we all feared the worst and then he returned out of the blue.

    Eventually we had to have him put down as his organs began failing as he was quite old, his bones felt so hollow and it was sad to see such a beautiful and once powerful animal now so frail. :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    cerastes wrote: »
    Is that it, ours went missing for 5 days, I was sure he was killed by some other tom, or that he was either trapped in a neighbours house or being held hostage somewhere by some well meaning kid?
    Turned up today looking noticeably thinner and going mental for some food, so rules out being well treated elsewhere, god knows what he was up to, but he was not being fed.

    I think we all know what he was up to ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,557 ✭✭✭the_monkey


    Coyotes ?

    Where are you OP?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    the_monkey wrote: »
    Coyotes ?

    Where are you OP?

    'Murica. :D


    (sorry. irresistible as bubble wrap so it was.)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 140 ✭✭Says I To Bridey


    Cats just come back, even when you don't want them too. They'll just show up like nothings happened


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,150 ✭✭✭kumate_champ07


    Muise... wrote: »
    'Murica. :D


    (sorry. irresistible as bubble wrap so it was.)
    http://www.adverts.ie/ornaments-figurines/bubble-wrap-for-sale-in-dublin/4712374


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,627 ✭✭✭Lawrence1895


    MadsL wrote: »
    She is - and has a registration disc for a recovery company - plus a phone number on her collar and two more engraved on her discs.

    Short of tattooing her, not much else I can do...

    In that case, all best wishes, may she come back well and healthy very soon :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    I hope some hillbilly does not catch it and marry it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 286 ✭✭fathead82


    I feel your pain, our cat got knocked down in december & damaged her jaw. After a month of spoon feeding her mince & chicken,2 operations costing almost €200 she was finally well enough to be let outside again.
    Bitch moved straight in with the neighbours & has not come home for 2 weeks now.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    fathead82 wrote: »
    I feel your pain, our cat got knocked down in december & damaged her jaw. After a month of spoon feeding her mince & chicken,2 operations costing almost €200 she was finally well enough to be let outside again.
    Bitch moved straight in with the neighbours & has not come home for 2 weeks now.

    Can't stop laughing! Its like buying your missus a new rack, only for her to start shagging your mate :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    I hope some hillbilly does not catch it and marry it.

    :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭Stavros Murphy


    Think of all the things you can buy with the cat-food money. The pain will ease. I wish ours would feck off, fur covered psycho that it is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭Chet T16


    Our cat was missing for 8 days last summer but she was back within 5 minutes of this: http://m.rte.ie/news/touch//2013/0529/453287-earthquake-felt-across-south-east/

    So, I would highly recommend an earthquake.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Think of all the things you can buy with the cat-food money. The pain will ease. I wish ours would feck off, fur covered psycho that it is.

    Ain't the cat food, its the health insurance, cat has better insurance than I do.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,341 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    I doubt a cat would survive too long in the New Mexico desert. At least its winter I suppose, probably gets very cold at night though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    MadYaker wrote: »
    I doubt a cat would survive too long in the New Mexico desert. At least its winter I suppose, probably gets very cold at night though.

    They have fur coats...





    ...



    ...





    Expensive little feckers to maintain ain't they...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭Stavros Murphy


    MadsL wrote: »
    Ain't the cat food, its the health insurance, cat has better insurance than I do.

    You gotta mind the pussy. Or it'll stray.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,592 ✭✭✭cerastes


    Smidge wrote: »
    I think we all know what he was up to ;)
    Didnt even have time to come back for a meal :), I was sure he was a gonner for some other reason.
    Cats just come back, even when you don't want them too. They'll just show up like nothings happened

    Ours shows up complaining, this was the worst Ive seen him complain, ever since he went out of the house, he doesnt want to eat inside, we only got him to keep any potential rodents down/eaten. Ive no idea if he even does that, there are so many stray toms and other cats, we need not have bothered, but Im beginning to think the toms dont really do too much work, Ive only ever found one headless starling and heard he was toying with a mouse once, had a female cat years ago and she always seemed to be stalking/returning with/toying with/and dispatching something. Plus she was clean and could be kept indoors and was friendly too. All he does is mark his territory and eat and isnt even that friendly.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    I hope your cat comes back soon!

    You all make cats sound awful, I can't wait to get a dog in 6 weeks :o


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    The only way to solve a cat going awol is to neuter it, i recommend getting a professional to do it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    WikiHow wrote: »
    The only way to solve a cat going awol is to neuter it, i recommend getting a professional to do it.

    She was neutered twice. Did the 2nd one cancel the 1st one out?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,935 ✭✭✭Calibos


    Have you happened to notice any furry quadrocopter drones flying about?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3ctz3RTI-o


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    mauzo! wrote: »
    She was neutered twice. Did the 2nd one cancel the 1st one out?
    What was the reason of double neutering?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    WikiHow wrote: »
    What was the reason of double neutering?

    We forgot about the first one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    mauzo! wrote: »
    We forgot about the first one.

    Exactly. Cat was a rescue, previous owner had Alzheimer's ...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    mauzo! wrote: »
    We forgot about the first one.
    No wonder the cat went awol, it has serious mental health issues.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    WikiHow wrote: »
    No wonder the cat went awol, it has serious mental health issues.

    Don't get me started about the time we forgot we had a cat and left her home alone while we went on a 2 week holiday.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    mauzo! wrote: »
    Don't get me started about the time we forgot we had a cat and left her home alone while we went on a 2 week holiday.
    I hope you had sky plus to keep the cat entertained while ye were sunning yer selves in the Algarve.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,014 ✭✭✭MonaPizza


    MadsL wrote: »
    Any suggestions as to the best way to find my cat that has gone awol. Three coyotes were hanging about earlier look guilty.

    I fear the worst.

    How do you find a cat? The classic lost poster?

    Your cat? It's not your cat! You're its human.


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