Thanks, Wasabipea. I wish good things for your Roni.
Roger (my husband) thinks someone may have taken her in, and is keeping her as an indoor only cat. I doubt it. We live next to greenspace (not a public park, exactly, more an area that's deliberately allowed to grow wild) with a small stream running through it, and coyotes are endemic to the area. There have been news reports that just a few miles from us they were jumping privacy fences to steal small pets from back yards. She was 13, and had been an indoor only cat since we got her; there's no way she could have survived on her own, although she was friendly enough to have visited a neighbor, and conceivably could have taken refuge there. But I've asked, and no one says they've seen her.
Every spring someone posts a lost cat sign on a light pole in our neighborhood, and it's always still there in the autumn. That's because the cat is never found.
And every once in a while I'll hear a cat crying outside my window, and I always go check, and it's never her.
And I should have insisted on evicting the house guests who did it the minute I realized they were responsible. It would have saved me from some physical abuse at the hands of one of them. Live and learn.
Margret
Roger (my husband) thinks someone may have taken her in, and is keeping her as an indoor only cat. I doubt it. We live next to greenspace (not a public park, exactly, more an area that's deliberately allowed to grow wild) with a small stream running through it, and coyotes are endemic to the area. There have been news reports that just a few miles from us they were jumping privacy fences to steal small pets from back yards. She was 13, and had been an indoor only cat since we got her; there's no way she could have survived on her own, although she was friendly enough to have visited a neighbor, and conceivably could have taken refuge there. But I've asked, and no one says they've seen her.
Every spring someone posts a lost cat sign on a light pole in our neighborhood, and it's always still there in the autumn. That's because the cat is never found.
And every once in a while I'll hear a cat crying outside my window, and I always go check, and it's never her.
And I should have insisted on evicting the house guests who did it the minute I realized they were responsible. It would have saved me from some physical abuse at the hands of one of them. Live and learn.
Margret