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| Thread ID: 114881 | 2010-12-21 04:19:00 | Anyone ever had a pet go missing? | lakewoodlady (103) | PC World Chat |
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| 1163841 | 2010-12-21 18:50:00 | Ive lost a rat, a cat, a dog, a few mice, 3 budgies, and my little brother. Cats are free, sometimes they'll go on a bit of an xmas holiday in search of cat-topia :pf1mobmini: |
jareemon (5207) | ||
| 1163842 | 2010-12-21 19:01:00 | I still think that he is shut in somewhere. Mmm. probably. You might have to go door to door and bang on garages and stuff to see if you can hear him. If they went away for 2 or 3 weeks, it could be bad. One of mine went AWOL for 9 days once. I was convinced she was dead, wandered the streets searching for her corpse. Did all the usual flyers, Pets on The Net notice, SPCA, Pound etc. 9 days later she turned up, fine. not hungry. I wonder if someone thought (cause she was thin) that she was a stray and kept her locked up for a week? I'll never know. After that she got a collar and name tag. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1163843 | 2010-12-21 19:04:00 | I've just found a rabbit, well most of one anyway. :) No collar or tag, but we are in the middle of the city.... My cat looks very pleased with herself. |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1163844 | 2010-12-21 20:00:00 | When I was a kid my brainless pedigree Cocker Spaniel would run off and always had to be tracked and brought home, he never once came back of his own accord. The last time we never found him. In contrast, a previous neighbour's cat didn't like it when they moved and kept coming back to its old home. In the end they donated it to the new owners I think, but the cat then got miffy and left. No idea what happened to it but we never saw it again. Neighbours on the other side had a very friendly cat that used to come and visit regularly for an hour or so then go home. They moved to Wellington (with cat) and the night before they left it came over, camped on a chair in our bedroom beside my wife, stayed all night then left in the morning. Seemed like it was saying goodbye. It lasted 6 weeks in Wellington before a car got it (no traffic around here). Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1163845 | 2010-12-21 20:28:00 | Lost my star chook named Peck, really stressed family out bigtime. Boy was pretty grief stricken, wife reckoned if I went missing he wouldnt have been so bad! She turned up a few days later. God only knows where she was hiding. | prefect (6291) | ||
| 1163846 | 2010-12-21 21:53:00 | we do get attached to our pets. Cats however are fickle creatures and will make friends with anyone who feeds them or just has a warm lap. Hopefully yours will turn up, they are notorious for going missing for a day or two on occasion. I've had my dogs get out while I was in the shower, one came back right away looking immensely pleased with himself but the old girl went exploring. I eventually found her 2 streets over, further than I would have believed at her age ( she had trouble just getting up off the floor ) and she quite happily followed me home. Pets like adventures Too :) |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1163847 | 2010-12-22 02:21:00 | Cats however are fickle creatures and will make friends with anyone who feeds them or just has a warm lap . Hmm . Not from what I have observed . I've had cats for the last 32 year They are all different . One current one is a one family animal only, she wouldn't care who fed her . In fact it was rather tricky when we moved because I had to leave them to be looked after for a while and she basically stopped eating, Was a bit of a mess when we got her back up here . |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1163848 | 2010-12-22 03:00:00 | Thanks for all the encouragement guys. Yes, hopefully he will just turn up. Hopeless putting a collar and tag on him, I tried it three times and he threw all of them. However, once he did come home with a complete collar and bell that was not his. It had a phone number on so I rang it and it belonged to a cat four houses up from me. Who knows, maybe they swapped collars? LL |
lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 1163849 | 2010-12-22 05:04:00 | All I can suggest is to go out really early in the morning 5:00am maybe, (or late at night) and walk around the neighbourhood and quietly call your cat, check trees too. It may have been frightened by a dog and run some distance and is laying low. Just hearing your voice may give it the courage to make it's way home again. | bellbird (6169) | ||
| 1163850 | 2010-12-22 05:48:00 | ACHTUNG cats eat bellbirds | prefect (6291) | ||
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