Chronos wrote:
CloudClimber wrote:
My cat ran away in July and I haven't seen him until yesterday a cat that looked like him was in my yard. When I went out to call it, it ran away. I'm going to get a trap, but I'm ok knowing he's alive and happy. I accepted it a long time ago because he was always a bit of a wild cat and seems to have decided to go feral. We will see what happens.
One of my male cats, before he was neutered, went missing for three days ones. I spent all of those three days looking for him in the pouring rain. On the night of the third day, I was exhausted and starting to lose hope and I had just climbed into bed when I heart a faint meow at the front door. I jumped up and ran to the door and opened it and there he was as dry and warm as could be.
He was neutered shortly there after, and then no longer allowed out at night after coyotes got two of our other cats so that was his first and last mating excursion.
I kind of worried the cat may have gotten killed by coyotes, but I didn't really believe it...he's a big outside/indoor cat and I have seen him leap pretty high up into trees from the ground, I just couldn't picture a coyote being able to catch him. Also don't want to be a jerk or anything...but just from what I have heard it is possible that the cats that have been assumed to have been gotten by coyotes, actually weren't and just found another place to go, from some stuff I've looked up its more likely an owner will assume a cat was gotten by a coyote than that it actually was.
But that is where I live, it varies depending on location...I am talking about more of an urban sort of environment where a pack of coyotes is not likely to come too near, in more of a rural area or somewhere close to a lot of open land I'd imagine its more likely for a cat to be killed by a coyote.
I also had a cat for 14 years I got when I was 7, but I don't think it was a coyote that got him...I am thinking more like a bear or a mountain lion because he was a cat that acted a lot bigger than he was. One day after that 14 or 15 years he just never came back...and it wasn't like this cat where I still had a feeling in the back of my head he had to still be there, with that cat I knew he was gone for good.
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18 Jan 2018, 3:37 am
