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Thank you both for your thoughtful and comforting responses! I'm sorry -- it seems like I'm always needing reassurance and circling back to the same problems and fears...Reading your messages always gives me some reassurance/groundedness that I have trouble finding myself. And Gray's story is...

No news. 9 weeks in. I'm finding it increasingly difficult to stay positive, and it's just very easy to give in to feelings of grief and regret and guilt. Why didn't I do something sooner? What if I'd gotten a search dog the first week? Why didn't I ask the neighbors where they went that...

We just checked the cat on Kimball Avenue. He's not Loki. Realistically, I had known the chances of the kitty being Loki were slim -- with the little differences in appearance as well as the distance Kimball Avenue is from our home -- but my heart still feels heavy. I know I should keep my...

I hope he is! I know that if this kitty on Kimball Avenue ends up not being him, I'll feel sad and helpless for a little while...but there's no reason to think that Loki couldn't have found a similar life, with someone kind to feed him and care for him.

Sorry in advance for all of this! -- some of my musings/assumptions for today about what happened to Loki: I think I've said this before, but the more I think about it, the more plausible the idea that Loki had jumped on a truck or car that morning becomes to me. The morning he went missing...

Thank you all so much for your responses! Certainly -- I won't be letting her out any time soon...or at all, for that matter. I'm planning to keep Clipper as an indoor cat, and I hope my parents keep it this way when I go to college. We're also planning on getting her spayed and microchipped...

Update: Clipper is still scared of people coming into my room, but now she runs into the room next to mine to hide! (Still comes back to the windows in my room after a few minutes, though.) She's not happy! Most of the time, I don't hear her. She's silent as a mouse and stays put in her corner...

Thank you so much! All of the support I've received here from you guys has made this very difficult experience a little less painful, and I thank you all deeply for that.

Haha, true! We did see two gray tabbies when we went the other day, but one was too pregnant, and the other too small. Here's to hoping Loki's still out there and that he had a good Christmas, wherever he is.

Thank you both so much for the advice and for the links!! I'm very happy to hear that this seems like good progress! I tried to engage her in some playtime, but she was not terribly interested...I'll keep trying, though! I really wonder what kind of life she had before we found her.

Loki's been missing for seven weeks today. There's a trail close to our house that leads to the local university, and the apartment complex I mentioned is on the trail and is basically part of the campus. This place is like a hub for strays! Several people who live there have already told us...

Thank you, haha! I really appreciate that -- it's nice to have an outlet. And I suppose that's true as well, although I think we probably would have had to do most of the work ourselves anyway even if not for COVID. Yes, definitely -- talking and spreading the word is the most important! We put...

Hello, all! For the past seven weeks, I've been looking for my little baby Loki. (You might have seen my thread in Cats S.O.S.) We unfortunately have not been able to find him (yet), but we did manage to trap a stray cat about two miles from our house. The vets told us that she was unspayed and...

That's a good point! People who visit the local PetSmart like to text us sometimes and tell us to check, but otherwise, we've kind of let that fall through. I'll be checking the sites more regularly from now on. As for the local radio stations, that is certainly not something I'd thought of...

Thank you! I'll keep all of your stories and words of encouragement in mind. It's just so easy to fall into a cycle of grief and not be able to do anything to get out of it except to think and regret and hope. Is there anything critical I haven't done that I should do at this point? Feeling...

Thank you both so much...we'll keep trying. I will never give up on him. I hope you all don't mind me venting, but the pain is just so indescribable. Loki was my heart, my soul, my best friend. He'd wake me up by sucking on my ear, and he had a purr of a motorcycle. He had the biggest heart...

We just took "Loki" to the vet, and it's not him. Rather, this kitty is an unspayed female. I'm absolutely heartbroken. It feels like we've been set back six weeks, not knowing if he's even alive. We're still going to keep this kitty, provided that we can't find her real family, but it just...

Unless we just cat-napped a random cat who looks a lot like him, Loki is home after 44 long days!!! This morning, at around 2am, my parents knocked on my door and put his carrier on the floor, excitement evident on their faces. When I unzipped the carrier, he ran to the windows and tried to...

Thank you guys once again for your stories and encouragement! @SweetLittleKitty, I'm so glad you found your kitty back! That was certainly a hard-won battle! Some people are just very, very strange. Here's an update: two days ago, I got a video of a potential Loki sighting from a very nice...

That's true! That's what we're intending to do. I put the first trail cam up today; it's pointing toward our back porch (where we put some fresh food)...Once the second one comes, it will most likely be angled toward the trees/wilderness. Keeping our fingers crossed that we see something🤞 Oh, I...