... and asking from door to door if anyone has seen her I have found that there are two other cats missing in the same area.

I'm worried that we have one of those twisted people who kill cats lurking around.

... and I'm worried that my other cat will disappear as well.

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are like men... they always come back when getting hungry....

phew.. luv happy endings.

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Cats are frequently accused of decimating the native fauna and there are people out there who take the law into their own hands and start killing cats.

When I found that two other cats were missing from three doors down the road I feared the worst and really didn't expect to see her again.

In truth, although the female catches an occasional skink, both cats were excellent ratters in their youth and it is rats which kill the baby birds, not cats.

Also, she is a brown burmese and they are sometimes taken for their skins. She has some white hairs now so she is not as vulnerable as she was - I used to keep a chunk of fur cut short to make her skin worthless. Some people dye a green patch on their cats' backs for the same reason.

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ah, we have Town Planners for decimating the fauna and flora here!
Glad your little adventurer returned Your Pinkness

now .. on the other matter .. if you know you're going to be hungry .. why leave the pantry?!?

I'm glad your cat is home safe!

I didn't think that I'd see her again and I was so relieved when she came limping in. It was a very hot day and she was absolutely exhausted - goodness knows where she had been.

I had been very brave while she was missing - phoning the vet to see if there had been any other reports of missing cats other than the three I knew about - but I cried when she came into the house.

I know that I'll lose them one day - they are 10 years old - but not to know what has happened is so hard. I'd rather have a flattened body than a cat which simply isn't there in the morning.

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Saturday on German TV. I made myself comfortable, dimmed the light, laid down on my cosy bed, put a pillow underneath my head and ... dozed off.
But just before I fell asleep I saw this tree... dead foxes and cat hung from the branches... horrible to view. On the other hand.. it is plain that the neozoen brought from Europe to Oz had causes the death of many native animals. When I visited my relatives in Victoria I'd seen more foxes and cats and rabbits and sheep (beware those deadly creatures... hehehehe) as I'd ever seen around my village in Germany.
It's - once again - man's fault that things go wrong sometimes.

Glad my cat has survived for some 11 years now.

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Hi Minnie,

I'm so glad your cat has returned safely. It's horrible when that happens, and there are a lot of sick people out there. Cat's are curious and find themselves in all sorts of places, maybe she accidentally got shut in someone's shed or garage. That is the price of loving animals, you worry about them and cry over them when the inevitable happens. But I believe that animals live in the present and don't 'worry' about things in the same way humans do, so they are spared that distress.

So, was it extra dinner for her then?

Hi Minnie. I know that feeling so well & can empathise with the way you must have felt. Did you get to the stage of putting up colour posters, as I have done in the past? I too love happy endings.

the temperature was almost 38ºC and I was more concerned to make sure that she hadn't been shut into a garden shed in the heat.

A leaflet drop with a picture would have been the next step and an ad in the local suburban paper.

minnie

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