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Hi - I'm new to this and have never joined a forum before. I can't seem to find the help I need about my beautiful missing girl called Rubis - it's French spelling for Ruby.
Rubis stayed in on Sunday night - her choice, my cats come and go as they please - and got up on Monday morning, had breakfast, a kiss and cuddle and toddled off outside to see the day. We have a large garden and meadow backing onto the woods. We are surrounded by fields and hedgerows. There is a road but it is at the top of a long winding path leading from the house. I've always trained my girls to be afraid of the sound of cars, and she would always run back to the house if she heard one. The path - well, dirt track really - passes next to the house and on into the woods. We have no near neighbours or barns that are close by. Our own has been searched thoroughly every day.
She left the house as usual, happy, licking her lips and washing herself before she went to her usual haunts. I've always trained my girls to follow me around the meadow on specific paths, but of course when they are out on their own, particularly at night, I know they go much further but they have always come home. She became a good hunter. The longest Rubis went missing for was about 5 hours. She loved her food - because she was almost starved to death when we found her - and she was a happy little soul, relishing in her new found love and care. We idolised her as we do all our cats.
We haven't seen her for almost two weeks and I am totally crushed by it. I cannot get her out of my mind and have looked everywhere almost hourly eversince. Posters have been put up, local shelters, missing cat organisations, neighbours, outlying regions, I've sprinkled her used cat litter so she picks up the scent, I've even sprayed my own urine on some of my old clothes for her to pick up. Crazy though this sounds, she always used to love coming in to the loo when I pee'd! (I drew the line at the other, though!) hoping that she's pick up my scent. I have done everything known to man to get her back but she has just gone. I keep reading that they generally are close by but Rubis was very vocal and always, but ALWAYS called back. I've had to get her out of a tree 30 feet up because she got stuck and she hollered at the top of her lungs for me to hear her. I've checked with hunters, trappers, asked neighbours - nearest neighbour is a long way away. I've done everything I can think of. If Rubis is close by surely Ella would somehow know and let me know? Wouldn't she fnd her and bring her back, or lead me to her? I've been in every bog and ditch, roadside and pond.
Here's the thing that everyone has latched onto. Our neighbour came to cut our meadow on the day she disappeared. Ok, I know what you are going to say, that she was very frightened and ran away and got lost... but surely she wouldn't go SO far out of her territory? She was quite a confident cat with stuff, although I appreciate a combine harvester is a mother of a vehicle, but she could have gone well away from it and still been in the garden that she knew. It doesn't make sense to me. I've called her at dawn and at dusk so the sound travels further. There are no dogs near here. We chose this house based around our cats needs and wouldn't have moved here if dogs were around.
I have bought a night vision monocular and will go into the woods in the dark tonight but I am distraught at the thought of her out ther on her own and frightened. This is 11 days. She was a slight little thing to start with, despite having the appetite of a mammoth. The only glimmer of, I don't know, 'ease' of mind is that she is chipped, spayed and all the innoculations and flea/worm treatments are up to date.
Should I give up hope? Do I just sit here and try to get on with life? Because I can tell you right now it feels like it's never going to happen. I keep calling her in my mind, I won't lose the connection to her and she'll always know I won't give up... but realistically? I long to see her little ginger bum and skinny legs come skipping in.
Rubis stayed in on Sunday night - her choice, my cats come and go as they please - and got up on Monday morning, had breakfast, a kiss and cuddle and toddled off outside to see the day. We have a large garden and meadow backing onto the woods. We are surrounded by fields and hedgerows. There is a road but it is at the top of a long winding path leading from the house. I've always trained my girls to be afraid of the sound of cars, and she would always run back to the house if she heard one. The path - well, dirt track really - passes next to the house and on into the woods. We have no near neighbours or barns that are close by. Our own has been searched thoroughly every day.
She left the house as usual, happy, licking her lips and washing herself before she went to her usual haunts. I've always trained my girls to follow me around the meadow on specific paths, but of course when they are out on their own, particularly at night, I know they go much further but they have always come home. She became a good hunter. The longest Rubis went missing for was about 5 hours. She loved her food - because she was almost starved to death when we found her - and she was a happy little soul, relishing in her new found love and care. We idolised her as we do all our cats.
We haven't seen her for almost two weeks and I am totally crushed by it. I cannot get her out of my mind and have looked everywhere almost hourly eversince. Posters have been put up, local shelters, missing cat organisations, neighbours, outlying regions, I've sprinkled her used cat litter so she picks up the scent, I've even sprayed my own urine on some of my old clothes for her to pick up. Crazy though this sounds, she always used to love coming in to the loo when I pee'd! (I drew the line at the other, though!) hoping that she's pick up my scent. I have done everything known to man to get her back but she has just gone. I keep reading that they generally are close by but Rubis was very vocal and always, but ALWAYS called back. I've had to get her out of a tree 30 feet up because she got stuck and she hollered at the top of her lungs for me to hear her. I've checked with hunters, trappers, asked neighbours - nearest neighbour is a long way away. I've done everything I can think of. If Rubis is close by surely Ella would somehow know and let me know? Wouldn't she fnd her and bring her back, or lead me to her? I've been in every bog and ditch, roadside and pond.
Here's the thing that everyone has latched onto. Our neighbour came to cut our meadow on the day she disappeared. Ok, I know what you are going to say, that she was very frightened and ran away and got lost... but surely she wouldn't go SO far out of her territory? She was quite a confident cat with stuff, although I appreciate a combine harvester is a mother of a vehicle, but she could have gone well away from it and still been in the garden that she knew. It doesn't make sense to me. I've called her at dawn and at dusk so the sound travels further. There are no dogs near here. We chose this house based around our cats needs and wouldn't have moved here if dogs were around.
I have bought a night vision monocular and will go into the woods in the dark tonight but I am distraught at the thought of her out ther on her own and frightened. This is 11 days. She was a slight little thing to start with, despite having the appetite of a mammoth. The only glimmer of, I don't know, 'ease' of mind is that she is chipped, spayed and all the innoculations and flea/worm treatments are up to date.
Should I give up hope? Do I just sit here and try to get on with life? Because I can tell you right now it feels like it's never going to happen. I keep calling her in my mind, I won't lose the connection to her and she'll always know I won't give up... but realistically? I long to see her little ginger bum and skinny legs come skipping in.
